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Re: [xsl] XPath string comparison of two strings representing calendar dates ... any counterexamples?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath string comparison of two strings representing calendar dates ... any counterexamples?
From: "Syd Bauman s.bauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:14:08 -0000
Yes, comparison as a string will work from 1000-01-01 to 9999-12-31,
or the strings could be converted to dates as others have mentioned.

But be sure this field is a DATE, not a DATE or DATE-TIME, as the
latter in RFC 5545 permits time zones in any of 3 formats. At least
one of those formats will not work with string comparison, and
comparison of different formats (or of a DATE with a DATE-TIME) will
probably also not work. In all of these converting to an xsd:dateTime
first is probably your best bet. (But for at least one DATE-TIME
format, that seems to me to be annoying, and perhaps quite
difficult.)
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