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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