[xquery-talk] Ordering procedure of the 'order by' clause

[Michael Kay]

You need to read the material on collations in the Functions and Operators
specification.
 
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


  _____  

From: talk-bounces at xquery.com [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of
Niranjan Kumar
Sent: 02 June 2006 08:14
To: talk at xquery.com
Subject: [xquery-talk] Ordering procedure of the 'order by' clause


Hi

Is there any specification that tells, in which order the elements should be
returned if you use a 'order by' clause, especially while returning the text
values. 

My doubt is, in what order or respect the CAPITAL  letters, spaces between
text values(like names) and alpha numericals are treated. 
Is the order by clause case sensitive, or can we implement it in which ever
way we like(case sensitive or case insensitive). 

Is there anything written in the W3C specs regarding this.

Thank you

Niranjan 



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://xquery.com/pipermail/talk/attachments/20060603/051ed0cb/attachment.htm