RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes

[David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>]

Actually, I think AVTs are ok in lang on xsl:sort even in 1.0. The text
of the spec isn't clear, but if the 'non-normative dtd' can be trusted,
avts are ok:
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/W3C/xslt.html#dtd

<!ELEMENT xsl:sort EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST xsl:sort
  select %expr; "."
  lang %avt; #IMPLIED
       ^^^^^
  data-type %avt; "text"
  order %avt; "ascending"
  case-order %avt; #IMPLIED
>

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dpawson@nildram.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:00 PM
> To: Jirka Kosek; David Cramer
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Sorting and non-en_US indexes
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>