Re: [xsl] Sorting Upper-Case first. Microsoft bug?

[Stan Devitt <jsdevitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David is definitely not alone   ( Perhaps it is a minority of 2 :) ) 

Attempt at Summary:

The term "lexiciographic" has for a very long time had a specific 
technical meaning in  CS and Math circles and hence in any document 
describing sorting algorithms in a programming language.

There is general agreement that:   1)  the current implementations DO 
NOT comply with that specific technical meaning, but that 2 ) they DO 
implement something based on UTR10 and which is pretty close to what 
many people in this group really want when sorting text .

The text of the  XSLT 1.0 spec on this topic should change  to make it 
very clear that  the notion of lexicographic is note pure and (can be) 
overridden by the kinds of cultural considerations described in UTR 10 
(or just avoid the use of lexicographic all together).

Stan Devitt


John Marshall wrote:

> I suspect you are in a minority of one and the unanimity of the XSLT processors suggests that the interpretation they have adopted is the correct one.
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