Re: [Exist-open] changing the sort order

[Pierrick B. <pie...@fr...>]

Hi,

Birnbaum, David J a écrit :

>> let $verbs := ("cde", "bcd", "xyz") for $i at $pos in $verbs order
>> by replace($verbs[$pos],'xyz','abc') return $i
> 
> This returns the values in a chaotic order.

Does it ?

> I did some more experimentation and my first approach:
> 
> for $i in $verbs order by replace($i,'xyz','abc') return ...
> 
> works correctly

Does it ?

> as long as the characters in 'xyz' are all regular
> Unicode (5.0) characters. When I insert one of the Unicode 5.1
> characters into the 'xyz' string, though, the replacement stops
> functioning altogether, and the values come back sorted as if there
> had been no replacement.

Please provide a (short) real test case then. We indeed have (very) few 
problems with fn:replace(), see the XQTS results. You might be unlucky 
enough to fall into those bugs :-(

Cheers,

p.b.