Re: sort collation

Well....that's clever and practical. Two things I am not :)



On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 1:58 PM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Am 10/1/2022 um 1:53 PM schrieb Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have a <xsl:sort> which is applied to footnote numbering. The
> > footnotes are numbered a,b,c....aa,ab,ac...ba,bb,bc, etc
> >
> > With no collation applied, the footnotes are sorted a, aa, ab, b, ba,
> > bb, bc, etc. I am having trouble identifying the collation to use to
> > get them into the order as above.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to which collation to use?
> >
>
> Wouldn't
>
>    <xsl:sort select="string-length(.)"/>
>
> <xsl:sort select="."/>
>
> give the order a,b,c,...,aa,?