Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath string comparison of two strings representing calendar dates ... any counterexamples? From: "Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:36:02 -0000 |
The values are not directly parseable as xs:date or xs:dateTime values, so I think youbll have to preprocess them to make proper date strings out of them and compare them as dates(), e.g.: local:makeDate(/Test/Date2) gt local:makeDate(/Test/Date1) Where I leave local:makeDate() as an exercise to the reader ( Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com On 8/16/17, 11:09 AM, "Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Folks, I have an XML document that contains two elements with values representing calendar dates, in YYYYMMDD format, e.g., <Test> <Date1>20170816</Date1> <Date2>20170817</Date2> </Test> This is the format that iCalendar (RFC 5545) uses to represent dates. I wish to test to see if the calendar date represented in <Date2> is greater than (occurs later in chronological time) the calendar date represented in <Date1>. Here's an XPath expression to do the test: /Test/Date2 gt /Test/Date1 In this case, the XPath returns true. Note that I am doing mere string comparison. I am comparing the string '20170817' against the string '20170816'. Will the XPath always work? Is there a counterexample, where <Date2> holds a value representing a calendar date that is less than (occurs earlier in chronological time) the calendar date represented in <Data1>, and yet the XPath returns true? If there is a counterexample, what XPath expression will always work? /Roger
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