RE: [xsl] German umlaut sort

[Geert Bormans <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must admit I have not read the entire thread...

from what I remember from a recent project in
which I needed a non standard Chinese sorting,
msxml supports most of the locales through the OS.
You can simply bind to a locale using the lang attribute
<xsl:sort lang="de-CH"/>
will likely do the trick
not sure if this standard or not, and if it would work for you, but
 <xsl:sort lang="zh-CN"/>
worked amazingly well for me on msxml





At 11:52 8/06/2013, you wrote:
> Thank you Michael,
>
> I've tried all the options you proposed. No way with MXSML :-( I've read
> somewhere MSXML was using the internal language config of a computer for
> that purpose. I have a swiss French PC, so I will ask my customer to try on
> a swiss german one. Maybe the solution?
>
> Regards
> JP
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Michael M|ller-Hillebrand [mailto:mmh@xxxxxxxxx]
> Envoyi : jeudi 6 juin 2013 16:23
> @ : xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [xsl] German umlaut sort
>
> Am 06.06.2013 um 13:27 schrieb Jean-Pierre Lamon <jpl@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Thank you for your response (and to the others too :-)
> > But sorry, I don't understand : what do you mean by tool or software?
> > In my soft, I'm only launching a FOP cmd under Windows.
> > And to retrieve my list, a XSLT stylesheet with:
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="//*[@tag=$tag]|//*[@tag=$tag2]|//*[@tag=$tag3]">
> >       <xsl:sort select="."/>
> >
> > And for the different ordering rules, your right : in my case, I must use
> the german swiss ordering sort, which is not the same as the german one.
> Quite simple :-) I don't know how to manage this issue with XSL. Maybe any
> idea for a workaround?
>
> JP,
>
> As far as I know FOP is not doing the XSL transformation itself, so you use
> a certain XSLT processor to do this. E.g. Saxon relies on the collations
> (sorting rules) available in Java resp. .NET when sorting. And based on this
> it is possible to take advantage of advanced sorting features.
>
> In http://saxonica.com/documentation/html/extensibility/collation.html I
> find the description how Saxon handles a collation attribute like in
>
> <xsl:sort select="." collation="http://saxon.sf.net/collation?lang=de-CH"; />
>
> This assumes, that de-CH is a known locale for the environment Saxon uses at
> the moment.
>
> Other tools may have other options (or not). So if you share which tool you
> use for XSLT processing (and if you use XSLT > v.1 or not), we may be able
> to help you.
>
> - Michael
>
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> Michael M|ller-Hillebrand
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