Craig, thanks for the reference
(http://www.exslt.org/math/functions/max/index.html), although I was
disappointed to see that MSXML parser does support the math:max
function, but the following template I found there does the trick:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:math="http://www.exslt.org/math"
exclude-result-prefixes="math">
<xsl:template name="math:max">
<xsl:param name="nodes" select="/.." />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($nodes)">NaN</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
<xsl:sort data-type="number" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="number(.)" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Kaine
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