Re: [xsl] xsl:sort with lang attribute

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> > How well do the current crop of XSLT processors 
> > (I'm thinking of Saxon6, Saxon7, Xalan, and xsltproc)
> > support the lang attribute in xsl:sort?
>
>
> Saxon 6.x uses the lang attribute to attempt to load a user-defined
> sorting module, as described in [1]. There is no built-in support for
> multiple languages, just hooks that allow you to do it yourself.
>
> [1]
> http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/extensibility.html#Implementing-
> a-collating-sequence

The sample internationalization support library (i18n_support) available 
from the ISOGEN Web site 
(http://www.isogen.com/downloads/cool_tools/cool_tools.jsp) includes 
samples of custom collators for Saxon 6.5. In this implementation, I 
have a single factory method that creates Java Collators for a 
particular locale (or using local collation rules). The Saxon collators 
then delegate to this factory to get the appropriate collator.

Cheers,

Eliot
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