From a post in this group entitled "XSL sort for DateTime data on  7 
September 2006 by Dimitre Novatchev.

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"2netrall" <2netrall@d...> wrote in message 
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>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. 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?