Thanks. The client application is VB6. Not many people like .NET framework
here.

Regards,

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> schrieb im
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> Muhammed Inam wrote:
>
> > Suppose I have the following XML data;
> > <sgv>
> >     <detail id="112233">
> >         <datum>01.01.2000</datum>
> >         ....
> >     </detail>
> >     .........
> > </sgv>
> >
> > What I'd like to do is selecting nodes that meet certain criteria. For
this
> > reason, I attempt to use the following command;
> >
> >     myDom.selectSingleNode("//detail[datum >= '01.01.1999']")
>
> There is date type in XPath, therefore there is no date comparison
> defined. Usual workaround is to have date value in YYYYMMDD format (you
> can get it using substring() and translate() functions) and then compare
> them numerically.
> Alternatively you can use EXSLT date functions. If you under .NET - take
> a look at EXSLT.NET library.
> -- 
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
> http://blog.tkachenko.com