- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:23:42 -0400
- To: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:59:05PM +0100, Tony Graham wrote:
> Section 10, "Sorting", of XSLT 1.0 [1] includes:
>
> if no lang value is specified, the language should be determined
> from the system environment
>
> Section 13.1.3 "Sorting Using Collations", of XSLT 2.0 [2] includes:
>
> If none of the collation, lang or case-order attributes is present,
> the collation is chosen in an implementation-defined way.
>
> This difference in expectation in the absence of the 'lang' attribute
I see one main difference between
determined from the system environment
and
chosen in an implementation-defined way
which is that the second wording requires the implementation to
document how it chooses the collation in this case.
The older wording is also much looser -- SHOULD be determined --
so that an implementation could have had a hard-wired default if
it so chose, and now, if it has a hard-wired default, it still can,
but must say so.
> (which recently caused unexpected results for me)
How did it cause unexpected results?
Liam
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