Re: [xml] FW: [xsl] Problem with xsl:sort and German Umlauts with libxslt

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:24:38PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > That said if someone can explain how the sorting algorithm should
> > really work with and without lang-attribute, then I may update the
> > XSLT implementation to follow it.
>
> You just need to re-implement the locales ;)
>
> Each language has its own sorting order defined by their respective
> locale. This includes a definition of equivalence classes (characters
> which are rated the same during a sort), and collation characters
> (multiple characters which are to be handled as one, e.g. the German
> double-s). You can find further information at
>
>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/locale.html
>   http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/
>
> I think that the size of these documents speak for themselves, so I
> shall refrain from further comments about the sanity of doing such
> an implementation.


  Just what I was afraid of, still most of tr10 seems about charqacter
normalization, whether this should be done on XML input is still
a work item in the W3C XML Core WG, so this may be required anyway in some
future, but I really dislike the idea of coding it.

Daniel

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