RE: Problem with xsl:sort and German

The details of collations are product specific. I'll do my best to answer
your post on the saxon-help thread at

http://markmail.org/thread/y3u7rszwk7qxv6qq

Regards,

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

>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm experiencing some problems with German and sorting. In
> researching I found that there have been similar problems in
> the past which seem unresolved (see  Problem with
> xsl:sort and German Umlauts with libxslt). Was this issue
> ever resolved?
>
> I'm using xsl 1.0 and the Saxon-B 9.1.0.6 transformer (rather
> than the libxslt). I believe I have told the xslt to sort
> using German (i.e. lang='de'). My sort statement looks like this:
>
> <xsl:sort select="translate(normalize-space((
> analytic/author/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/author/text()[normalize-space()],
> analytic/title/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/editor/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/title/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/meeting/text()[normalize-space()] )[1]),
> 'adbcdefghijklmnovpqrs_tu|vwxyz.-_,()[]/:;&quot;?''',
> 'ADBCDEFGHIJKLMNOVPQRS_TU\VWXYZ')" lang="de" order="ascending"/>
>
> As you can see a translate function is being used to remove
> unwanted characters such as punctuation.
>
> Letters with umlauts are not correctly sorted. In this case
> the umlauts are ignored and the letters are treated as plain letters.
> (e.g. incorrectly sorted)
> Bdte, Ludwig...
> Batt, Kurt...
>
> What would be desirable is to sort the letters with umlauts
> to positions that directly follow their siblings without umlauts.
> (e.g. - desired sorting)
> Batt, Kurt...
> .
> .
> Bayer, Kurt...
> Bdte, Ludwig...
>
> Similarly the _ (ess-zett) character is not being properly
> sorted, appearing before entries with the letter s.
> (e.g. -incorrectly sorted)
> Ba_ler, Moritz...
> Bastian, [Horst]...
> Bastian, Horst and Bernhard Blaschke...
>
> This character should appear after s.
> (e.g. -correctly sorted)
> Bastian, [Horst]...
> Bastian, Horst and Bernhard Blaschke...
> Ba_ler, Moritz...
>
> Any advice regarding where I have gone wrong with my xslt
> would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob Jett