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XSLT 2.0 provides much more detailed control over the choice of collation,
but of course your choice is still limited to those collations the vendor
chooses to supply.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Rasmussen [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 October 2004 10:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xsl:sort with msxml english language, danish
> characters, weird results
>
>
> --
> Bryan Rasmussen
>
> Hi, I was doing some tests of sorting by various
> languages/charsets etc. and I
> came across the following irritation; given xml like the following:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <words>
> <word>aardvark</word>
> <word>xdense</word>
> <word>elborg</word>
> <word>aardvulf</word>
> <word>odense</word>
> <word>eelburg</word>
> <word>zebra</word>
> <word>zandinsky</word>
> <word>tip</word>
> <word>fthling</word>
> <word>fadxl</word>
> <word>xerces</word>
> </words>
> and an xslt like the following:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
> <xsl:param name="sortby" select="'en'"/>
> <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8"/>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <e>
> <xsl:for-each select="/words/word">
> <xsl:sort data-type="text" select="." lang="{$sortby}"
> order="descending"
> case-order="upper-first"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="." />,
> </xsl:for-each>
> </e>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> the output in msxsl the command line tool for msxml is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><e>zebra,
> zandinsky,
> xerces,
> tip,
> xdense,
> odense,
> fadxl,
> eelburg,
> elborg,
> fthling,
> aardvulf,
> aardvark,
> </e>
>
> This by the way is not the sort order for danish characters,
> it does not allow
> sorting if the language sortby parameter is set to da (or at
> least not in the
> proper order), so this being the case I wonder what the
> reasoning is behind the
> sort order I'm seeing when the sortby parameter is en.
>
> Anybody know, have any ideas?