[tei-council] bib sorting broke

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Mon Apr 28 13:18:13 EDT 2014


Do we have a volunteer to write the XSLT to generate values  for 
@sortKey from all existing biblStructs?

On 28/04/14 18:13, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Isn't this why we have @sortKey?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 14-04-28 10:05 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> On 28/04/14 17:45, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>> look at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/BIB.html
>>> and marvel at the silly way the bibliography is sorted by first name of author
>>> --
>>>
>> The first part of the bibliog, which uses <bibl>s,  looks fine,
>> presumably because it isn't being sorted at all, but the components are
>> in the file in the right order. Whereas the other parts, which use
>> <biblStruct> are coming out in a strange order because someone rashly
>> engaged to sort them correctly no matter what order they were in the file.
>>



More information about the tei-council mailing list