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Re: Bug in 'xsl:sort'. ( XT vs SAXON. )
XT uses a java.text.Collator obtained by a call to
java.text.Collator.getInstance(Locale); this seems to be the standard
JDK way of doing culturally correct sorting.
Kay Michael wrote:
>
> You left out another quote from the spec:
>
> <note>It is possible for two conforming XSLT processors not to sort exactly
> the same</note>
>
> I don't know of any authority that tells me how to sort "lexicographically
> in the culturally correct manner" for English. The XSLT spec has a
> non-normative reference to a Unicode technical report (which it's quite
> possible James Clark tries to follow in xt). The fact is, if you look at two
> phone directories or indexes to see whether "-" collates before "0", you'll
> get two different answers.
>
> (Actually, I decided that once you get into "culturally correct" collating,
> there are so many different conventions that it's not worth trying very hard
> to get it right: instead I concentrated on providing user hooks to allow
> user-defined collating sequences in Saxon.)
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