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Sort method. Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Japanese support alternate sort methods (multiple sort options are available). All other languages support only 1 sort option. In that case, the value pinYin is used.
This simple type's contents are a restriction of the XML Schema string datatype.
The following are possible enumeration values for this type:
Enumeration Value |
Description |
none (None) |
Not specified, use default sort method. |
pinYin (PinYin Sort) |
Default sort method. This is the only sort option for most languages.
For Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Japanese, pinYin means sort by phonetic value.
|
stroke (Sort by Stroke) |
Sort by stroke count of the characters. Only applies to Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Japanese. |
Referenced By |
sortState@sortMethod (§3.3.1.89) |
The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this simple type:
<simpleType name="ST_SortMethod">
<restriction base="xsd:string">
<enumeration value="stroke"/>
<enumeration value="pinYin"/>
<enumeration value="none"/>
</restriction>
</simpleType>