The <collations> element

The collations element in the configuration file defines a number of collations that can be preloaded into the configuration. It contains zero or more child collation elements as detailed below.

Each collation element may have the following attributes:

Attribute	Applies to	Values	Effect
`uri`	HE PE EE	The collation URI (mandatory)	An absolute URI used to identify the collation in queries and stylesheets.
`alphanumeric`	HE PE EE	yes\|no\|codepoint	Yes indicates that a sequence of digits within a string is read as a number, for example "test8.xml" precedes "test10.xml".
`case-order`	HE PE EE	upper-first\|lower-first\|#default	Indicates whether upper-case characters should precede or follow their lower-case equivalents.
`class`	HE PE EE	Java class implementing `Collator`, `StringCollator`, or `Comparator`	Class used to perform string comparisons.
`decomposition`	HE PE EE	none\|standard\|full	Determines whether Unicode normalization should be applied to strings before comparison (Java platform only).
`ignore-case`	HE PE EE	yes\|no	Yes indicates that upper-case and lower-case are equivalent.
`ignore-modifiers`	HE PE EE	yes\|no	Yes indicates that accents and other modifiers are ignored.
`ignore-symbols`	HE PE EE	yes\|no	Yes indicates that punctuation symbols are ignored (.NET only).
`ignore-width`	HE PE EE	yes\|no	Yes indicates that width variations between characters are ignored.
`lang`	HE PE EE	Language code, e.g. `en-US`	Language supported by the collation.
`rules`	HE PE EE	Rules in Java `RuleBasedCollator` format	Detailed rules for ordering of characters.
`strength`	HE PE EE	primary\|secondary\|tertiary\|identical	The strength of the collation. A stronger collation takes more details of the character into account, e.g. accents and case.