>Archive Index
>microsoft.public.xml Archive Home
>Recent entries

>Thread Prev - XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?
>Thread Next - Re: XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?

Re: XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?

From: Martin Honnen <mahotrash@-----.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/4/2007 3:20:00 PM

Zoe Hart wrote:

> I've written a function to convert a date to number of ticks, but since
> finding the minimum date involves comparing an individual date (or number of
> ticks) to a node set, I'm not sure how to get the whole node set converted
> to number of ticks in order for the comparison to work.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Can you use XSLT? I don't think pure XPath 1.0 suffices. You can do e.g.
   number(translate(value, '-T:', ''))
to get a number your could compare, not even needing a function to 
convert to ticks but the problem with applying that function to a 
node-set with your original minimum approach remains.

XPath 2.0 could do it nicely, besides having xs:dateTime support for 
comparison operators and the min functio I think you can even apply 
functional expressions to node-sets as the last part of an XPath 
expression so there you could do

min(/test/order/item_info/item/somedata/value/xs:dateTime(.))

-- 

	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

>Thread Prev - XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?
>Thread Next - Re: XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?

>Archive Index
>microsoft.public.xml Archive Home
>Recent entries

Altova Mailing List Archives

Re: XPath expression to find minimum/earliest date-time?