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Ignoring 'A' and 'The' when sorting with XSLT

I have a list of places, however some of theses places have the word ‘the’ in front. I need help in sorting these places in alphabetical order by discarding the ‘the’. eg the mountains, should be just mountains. i can strip out the word ‘the’ to display the name by using substring however the sort doesn’t seem to be able to read this.

I have this so far.

<xsl:sort data-type="text" order="ascending" select="@places" />

example of what comes back:

alpha
sigma
the beta

would like it to come back with:

alpha
beta
sigma

this is just an example of how i stripped it from the name:

 <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="substring((@places), 0, 4) = 'The'">
           <xsl:value-of select="substring(
                                    (@places),
                                    4,
                                    string-length(@places)
                                 )" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
           <xsl:value-of select="@places" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>

Answer 1

Use:

<xsl:sort select="substring(@places, 5 * starts-with(@places,'the ')" /> 

Note: You could also use translate() function for case-insensitivity.