2netrall wrote:
> I have a date retrived from the database and if the date is in the future I 
> will display a buttom and if it is in the past I will display a text message. 
> The date of today I have put in a parameter called dtDate and it has the 
> format DD.MM.YYYY. 

Never, never store dates in non-comparable formats :-)
Use ISO 8601, eg yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss

> the dueDate that I wants to compare I put in a variable 
> because dueDate has not the same format and  has to be converted to the same 
> format, When I do he compare it always returns false, i.e. never creates the 
> buttom
> 
> <xsl:variable name="tmpDate"><xsl:apply-templates 
> select="dueDate"/></xsl:variable>
> <xsl:if test="$tmpDate >key('param','dtDate')">
> <cell style="button">
> 
> Has anyone compared dates in xsl and have any tip?

XSLT 1 doesn't do alpha string compares, only numeric, so
you'll need to split up your date and recombine it into a
usable form (yyyymmdd) without the periods, and do the
compare numerically.

///Peter