[publican-list] sortable lists, esp. glossaries

[Jeff Fearn]

Hi, I just remembered we had some code in place to test the perl module 
Unicode::Collate [1]. You need to edit XmlClean.pm (either in the source 
and rebuild or you can just do it where it's installed) and change:

-my $test_collate = undef;
+my $test_collate = 1;

Unicode::Collate is part of core perl on most platforms.

That will enable Glossary sorting, which is run during the build, so the 
output will be sorted but the source won't be touched.

If you run clean_ids the Glossary source will be sorted.

It's only set-up to sort glosslist, but very similar code could be used 
to do other types of lists or with some extra work more complex glossary 
structures.

Unicode::Collate has built in functionality to allow overriding the 
default sorting algorithms, but I've not had time to play with them :(

Cheers, Jeff.

1: http://search.cpan.org/~sadahiro/Unicode-Collate-0.87/

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