RE: [xsl] Aberrant Alphabetizing.

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I have run into something (embarrassingly) unexpected, using 
> sort to alphabetize book titles to be printed in a catalog. 
> The sort is working pefectly for most of the books. But here 
> are 5 examples of incorrect sorting (that were, sigh, pointed 
> out to me by the client):
> 
> Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age
>      (should be 2nd)
> 
> Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
>      (should be 1st)
> 

There is no single correct way of sorting English sentences - different
applications have different requirements. The XSLT 1.0 specification
does not prescribe a collating sequence, it is left to the
implementation.

It looks as if the particular processor you are using is ignoring spaces
in its collation. This is a perfectly legitimate technique, even if it
isn't the one you want. Check whether your chosen processor has any way
of customizing the collation (or switch to a different processor).

Michael Kay
Software AG
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