Item9489: TablePlugin sort should strip extraneous HTML from string data before comparing

Prior to some version of Foswiki, the sort in the TablePlugin stripped extraneous HTML from string data before comparing.

This behaviour has been changed.

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--- Core.pm     (revision 6090)
+++ Core.pm     (working copy)
@@ -1316,12 +1316,12 @@
                 # SMELL: efficient? That's not efficient!
                 @curTable = map { $_->[0] }
                   sort { $b->[1] cmp $a->[1] }
-                  map { [ $_, lc( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] } @curTable;
+                  map { [ $_, lc( _stripHtml( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} )) ] } @curTable;
             }
             if ( $currentSortDirection == $sortDirection{'ASCENDING'} ) {
                 @curTable = map { $_->[0] }
                   sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
-                  map { [ $_, lc( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] } @curTable;
+                  map { [ $_, lc( _stripHtml( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} )) ] } @curTable;
             }
         }
         else {

has to be restored.

This is already fixed in trunk.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 Aug 2010

applied, i wonder why Crawford didn't

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Aug 2010

priorities

-- CrawfordCurrie - 27 Aug 2010

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