Re: [xsl] Problem with xsl:sort and German

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

jjett2@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm using xsl 1.0 and the Saxon-B 9.1.0.6 transformer (rather than
> the libxslt). I believe I have told the xslt to sort using German
> (i.e. lang='de'). My sort statement looks like this:
>
> <xsl:sort select="translate(normalize-space((
> analytic/author/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/author/text()[normalize-space()],
> analytic/title/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/editor/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/title/text()[normalize-space()],
> monogr/meeting/text()[normalize-space()] )[1]),
> 'adbcdefghijklmnovpqrs_tu|vwxyz.-_,()[]/:;&quot;?''',
> 'ADBCDEFGHIJKLMNOVPQRS_TU\VWXYZ')" lang="de" order="ascending"/>

The Saxon documentation
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/xsl-elements/sort.html
says:
  "The value of the lang attribute can be an ISO language code such as 
"en" (English) or "de" (German). It determines the algorithm used for 
alphabetic collating. The default is based on the Java system locale. 
The only collating sequence supplied with the Saxon product is "en" 
(English), but other values may be supported by writing a user-defined 
comparison class. If no comparison class is found for the specified 
language, a default algorithm is used which simply sorts according to 
Unicode binary character codes. "

So I don't think using lang="de" suffices. 
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xsltsorting/ might show what 
to do but I haven't checked whether the solution there works with Saxon 
9.1. You might want to raise the problem on the Saxon help list if you 
can't get it to work.


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