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Subject: RE: [xsl] Sorting Upper-Case first. Microsoft bug? From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:58:34 +0100 |
> Of course XSLT 1.0 doesn't actualy define "lexicographic" but > my understanding is that it always implies a direct extension > on an ordering on characters to an ordering on strings by > comparing the first different position. If that isn't what is > intended I think XSLT shouldn't use this term and should just > directly refer to TR10. My dictionary defines "lexicographical" [sic] as "pertaining to the making of dictionaries", so on that basis "lexicographic order" means "the order that headwords might appear in a dictionary". And in my dictionary, "Johnsonian" comes after "johnny" and before "joie-de-vivre". I think the great man would have been surprised if he had appeared before "a" or after "zymotic". I know that the word lexicographic is also used to describe a class of sorting algorithms, but I don't think the XSLT 1.0 spec is using the word in that sense. This is clear from the phrase "lexicographically in the culturally correct manner for the language..." and from the fact that it recommends Unicode TR10, which is not a lexicographic sort in that sense. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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