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Re: Problem sorting alphabetically: all uppercase entries come first.

2003-12-15 17:03:52

You can see it works quite well except that words starting with  
uppercase letters come first. I am guessing it is sorting by ASCII  
values.

We had a long thread on sorting uppercase a while back.
It turns out that the whole world (including at least some xslt
implementors, but not including Stan and me) took a very unreasonable
reading of the sorting specification in the XSLT spec.

the end result is that you should get "sensible" results in all
processors but you will get different results.

I think in this case you want a case insensitive sort and its basically
english text so..

<xsl:sort select="translate(@level1,'ABC...','abc')"/>
etc

should give the same result on all systems.

David

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