I actually do just that with a pre-processor on my site, it's only a single line of ruby with a regex, a split, a sort and a join. The reason for doing it wasn

I actually do just that with a pre-processor on my site, it's only a single line of ruby with a regex, a split, a sort and a join. The reason for doing it wasn't so much the compression benefit but some of the nanoc code that generates the site did not always order the tags the same way and then it had to rsync up more than it needed to