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Re: Sorting and non-en_US indexes
- From: Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk>
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>, David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:59:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes
- References: <97B71B827DFB2B448A73EC00E5DA0EE63CA0DB@logos.inhouse.broadjump.com>
At 10:41 25/09/2002, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>>
>> In my test doc, which has <book lang="ja">, this seems to work. Is this
>> the 'right' way to do it?
>
>Yes, this is a correct way to get language for current element. The
>problem is, that in lang attribute of xsl:sort you can't use expressions
>(AVTs) if you want to be strictly comform to the XSLT 1.0 spec. Some
>processors support this, but it can't be added to standard distribution
>for this reason. :-(
Is this a feature that might be useful to others, hence should
be requested for xslt 2.0?
regards DaveP.