Re: [xsl] Problem sorting alphabetically: all uppercase entries come first.

[Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> > You can see it works quite well except that words starting with  
> > uppercase letters come first. I am guessing it is sorting by ASCII  
> > values.
>
>
> We had a long thread on sorting uppercase a while back.
> It turns out that the whole world (including at least some xslt
> implementors, but not including Stan and me) took a very unreasonable
> reading of the sorting specification in the XSLT spec.
>
> the end result is that you should get "sensible" results in all
> processors but you will get different results.
>
> I think in this case you want a case insensitive sort and its basically
> english text so..

I'm pretty sure that the XSLT spec requires this kind of sorting 
(dictionary order).  What processor are you using?



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