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

[Matthew Zimmerman <mz34@xxxxxxx>]

Mainly Sablotron.

It sorts in Saxon, but the web application I am using uses Sablotron.

On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:27 AM, Jeff Kenton wrote:

> 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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