On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:29, David Carlisle wrote:
XSLT 1 only has numeric less than operation so if you give it to
strings they are each converted to a number before comparing 2004-06-27
and 2004-09-05 both compare to NaN (Not-A-Number) I leave it to IEEE
lawyers to confirm what exactly the value of NaN < NaN should be
but I would guess that it's false, as you say.
Aha. Excellent, many thanks. This had eluded me. Easy fix:
<xsl:if test="translate($isodate,'-','') ... etc
In XSLT2 you could cast the strings to dates then do a date-aware
comparison.
<xsl:if test="discordian-date(foo/@date) earlier-than
julian-date(bar/@date)">
One day :-)
///Peter