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

Question

I would like to have a list sorted ignoring any initial definite/indefinite articles \'the\' and \'a\'. For instance:

• The Comedy of Errors
• Hamlet

Answer 1

Here is how I would do that:

Update: I forgot to add 1 to the expression (classic off-by-one error)

Well, starts-with is from XSLT 1.0. Prooflink: the first search result in Google yields XSLT 1.0: function starts-with