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From: "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@-----------------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/4/2004 11:28:00 AM

David Davidson wrote:

> I've run into a rather frustrating idiosyncrasy and would greatly appreciate 
> any insight.  I'm using XPath expressions in an XSLT for-each tag to filter 
> data and show subsets of an XML data island to the user.  I'm using IE 6.0 
> SP1 and creating the XML data island with an in-line XML tag.
> 
> The following XPath expression works great: NewDataSet/Table[Group = 'Group 
> A']
> 
> This XPath expression returns nothing: NewDataSet/Table[Group >= 'Group A']
> 
> My XML data island also contains an integer field, and XPath relational 
> expressions work great there.  I just seem to have a problem with the string 
> fields.  Anybody have any ideas?  Thanks in advance...
 > ...

XPath doesn't do greater/less comparisons with strings. To do that 
properly, it would need a concept of collation sequences (something that 
IMHO has been moved into XPath2).

Julian

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