Re: AW: Sort directory-list

On 21/11/2024 16:15, denis.maier@unibe.ch wrote:
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> *Von:*Martin Honnen <martin.honnen@gmx.de>
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 21. November 2024 15:56
> *An:* xproc-dev@w3.org
> *Betreff:* Re: Sort directory-list
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> On 21/11/2024 15:43, denis.maier@unibe.ch wrote:
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>     Hi everyone,
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>     I’m processing a directory containing files with names like
>     something1, something2, …, something10, something11, …,
>     something100, something101…
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>     This messes up the sorting when I’m reading those files with
>     p:directory-list, as someting10, something11, someting100, and
>     something101 come before something2. I could preprocess the files
>     with an external script to fix the numbering, but I was wondering
>     if there is something I could do from within the pipeline. I
>     haven’t seen attributes on p:directory-list that would help with that.
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> XPath 3.1 has fn:sort you could use on e.g. <p:for-each><p:with-input
> select="//*:file =>
> sort('http://www.w3.org/2013/collation/UCA?numeric=yes')"/> that
> processes the result of the p:directory-list.
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> Thanks, for the suggestion. I’ve tried that. But it doesn’t seem to
> have any effect. It keeps processing the files in the same order. What
> could go wrong here? How can I track that down?
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We need to check back with the XProc implementation you use to see
whether it supports the Unicode collation (attribute numeric) I have
tried to use.

I know this works with XPath and Saxon, not sure about the XPath
implementations in XProc processors.

Of course you can try the function argument of fn:sort as already suggested