Implementing Customizable Collators for xsl:sort

[W. Eliot Kimber]

I have a general requirement to be able to use locale and/or business-rule specific collators with xsl:sort (primarily for use in generation of back-of-the-book indexes in FO instances).

It appears from transformer/NodeSorter.java that this is not yet implemented. I'm trying to determine the level of effort to implement this, ideally in the same way that Saxon 7.x does (allowing you to delegate collation to a single object that handles one or more locales).

I've only had time to glance at the code but it didn't look like it would be as simple as just plugging in a different Collator implementation.

Has anybody done any sizing or design on this?

We want to be able to use XSLTC to compile our style sheets but we must be able to use custom collators.

Thanks,

Eliot
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