Saxon

SourceForge user: mhkay

When contains() and other similar functions are used

with an accent-blind collation, accents are not ignored

as they should be. For example,

contains("télé", "tele",

"http://saxon.sf.net/collation?lang=fr-FR;strength=primary")

returns false.

The reason for the problem is an undocumented behaviour

of the JDK RuleBasedCollator class: with this kind of

collation, the stream of collation elements returned by

the CollationElementIterator includes zero values where

the accents occur, and the application (i.e. Saxon) is

apparently expected to ignore these zero values. The

attached file is a new version of

net.sf.saxon.sort.RuleBaseSubstringMatcher modified to

behave this way.

The functions affected are contains, starts-with,

ends-with, substring-before, and substring-after.