Many thanks for your reply.

So basically what I need to do is make sure my variable is in that
format or force it to be in that format using some date conversion
functions.

I found some functions to do that like format-dateTime but I couldnt
get them to work - they dont print anything.  Do they require a "xs:"
constuct or something else that specifies the namespace where the
function is to be found?

Also, if you use some editor like XMLSpy, is there a way to pause the
processing and print the values of variables?  Kind of like
Debug.Print in Excel/VBA, is there an equivalent which would print the
output to some debug window?   My XSLT is generating an Excel file so
I would prefer to have some way to get a quick look at some
variables...

Many thanks in advance for your valuable help.

Regards,

On Jul 9, 8:34 pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> toudidel wrote:
> > Uzytkownik <toky...@gmail.com> napisal w wiadomosci
> >news:1183853658.004211.269610@j......
> >> How do you do a date comparison?
>
> > If you have date value in YYYY-MM-DD (in my opinion it's best) you havent
> > any problems with date comparisons (as strings) like that:
>
> > '2007-12-02' > '2007-12-01'
>
> But that does not work in XSLT/XPath 1.0, the operator > is defined for
> numbers but not for strings.
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XMLhttp://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/