I've been a bit unhappy with the way the document list looks, so I revisited it today. For the ScanCan project, I've written a Java sort comparator which ignores leading articles when sorting text strings. This seems a promising approach for our document list, so I added French articles to the mix, and tested it. You have to allow for the following prefixes (quotes included to show spaces):

• "THE "
• "A "
• "AN "
• "LE "
• "LA "
• "LES "
• "L'"
• "L’"

remembering to include both varieties of apostrophe. I'm assuming I shouldn't be allowing for "un" and "une" -- correct me if I'm wrong!

Right now, the output just SORTS according to these rules; it doesn't remove or move the leading article from its place. If this were an English project, I would add code to the XSLT to complement this, so that the article would be removed to the end of the title, like this:

The Unfortunate Traveller becomes Unfortunate Traveller, The.

I don't know whether this is commonly done in French, or what the rules are for doing it, so I've refrained for the moment.

I also added a class "EvenRow" to the even-numbered rows of the output table, so that CSS can be used to give the rows an alternating background colour; this will make it easier to disentangle the documents visually. Greg is adding the colours to the stylesheets now.