[side topic] RE: rechartering issue #1

Hi Ultan,

You said:
> In theory one might use the <xsl:sort> element as in XML 
> combined with a
> language attribute - unfortunately, right now it doesn't work too
> well...:)

In what ways have you found it deficient?  What processor did you use? Here
is the result I got in a quick test of this feature with MSXSL3.0 that on
first glance appeared quite good (apart perhaps from the Arabic):


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ultan.OBroin@oracle.com [mailto:Ultan.OBroin@oracle.com]
> Sent: 12 March 2002 02:07
> To: www-i18n-workshop@w3.org
> Subject: rechartering issue #1
> 
> 
> I'd like to see some attention given to how web content is 
> structured so
> that translated versions can be easily sorted linguistically.
> 
> Right now there is NO way to alphabetically sort HTML content 
> except to
> load it into a HTML editor and let a translator move the 
> content about,
> edit redundant entries and add required ones, depending on 
> the language.
> The dangers and costs involved are obvious.
> 
> In theory one might use the <xsl:sort> element as in XML 
> combined with a
> language attribute - unfortunately, right now it doesn't work too
> well...:)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ultan
> 
> 
>