Hi Everyone!

Using XSLT 1.0 I need to sort a list of words based on a string variable.

<xsl:variable name="upper">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNÑOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable>

Notice the funny "Ñ" half way through the string? The sorted order of the words needs to follow the string from left to right in that order.

Is this even possible to do without using collations?

Or am I going about it the wrong way using a string variable?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, John.

Have you tried setting lang="es" on the xsl:sort element?

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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

Thanks for responding Mr Kay!

Indeed I was using lang="es".

I figured out what the issue was. I was using xsltproc from the commandline, xsltproc that came bundled with my new iMac. It seems like its a old version of xsltproc and it was not producing the correct results. I also use oXygen XML editor and this produced a different result than xsltproc on the command line as oXygen had newer versions of the XSLT processors installed.

Which lead me to download a copy of Saxon 9 home edition jar file which when run produced the correct result.

I have now advised my client to use Saxon.

Thanks.