since xslt2 seems to be ok,something like this seems to work (returning
-1 0 or 1 depending whether the dates are greater equal or less) this is
assuming us date format, switch round [1] and [2] for ddmmyyyy.
<xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:x="data:,x"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
<xsl:function name="x:date">
<xsl:param name="d1"/>
<xsl:variable name="s" select="tokenize($d1,'/')"/>
<xsl:value-of
select="xs:integer($s[3])*10000+xs:integer($s[1])*100+xs:integer($s[2])"/>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:template name="main">
:<xsl:value-of
select="compare(x:date('9/11/2004'),x:date('10/25/2005'))"/>
:<xsl:value-of
select="compare(x:date('10/25/2005'),x:date('9/11/2004'))"/>
:<xsl:value-of
select="compare(x:date('10/25/2005'),x:date('10/25/2005'))"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon8 -it main date1.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
:-1
:1
:0
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