Re: [xsl] Sorting chemical formulae in XSLT 2.0

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/11/2010 16:55, Emma Burrows wrote:
> In other words, numbers are sorted as letters rather than numbers, so the subscripts go "1 10 11 2 3.." instead of "1 2 3... 10 11". I need an additional criterion somewhere to sort the numbers correctly but I haven't found a solution that works yet, so a nudge in the right direction would be great.

saxon has an alpha-numeric collation that probably just does the right 
thing automatically

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensibility/collation.xml

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