Item7284: TablePlugin taking HTML tags into account in sorting

Somewhere between TWiki release 4.2.3 and 4.3.2, TablePlugin changed its behavior with sorting by a text column. Up to 4.2.3, HTML tags were removed before column values are compared. TWiki::Plugins::TablePlugin::Core::emitTable() had the folloing lines.

@curTable = map { $_->[0] }
  sort { $b->[1] cmp $a->[1] }
  map { [ $_, _stripHtml( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] }
  @curTable;

But from 4.3.2 onward, the corresponding lines has been changed as follows. This means HTML tags are not removed.

@curTable = map { $_->[0] }
  sort { $b->[1] cmp $a->[1] }
  map { [ $_, lc( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] }
  @curTable;

-- TWiki:Main/HideyoImazu - 2013-06-25

Makes sense to fix as proposed.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2013-06-26

FYI, the removal of stripping HTML was done in Item6031 on 2008-09-30. I think it was unintentional.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2013-06-26

Make sure the docs are updated before uploading the new package.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2013-06-26