"Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@n...> wrote in message 
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> 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

I don't doubt your answer but this example from the version 4 sdk says it 
does, although I can't get David's example to work:

      author[last-name &gt;= "M"] All <author> elements that contain a 
<last-name> element with a value that begins with the letter M or greater.


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Joe (MVP - xml)