Re: [xsl] expression syntax

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2004-11-15 04:32 -0800, M. David Peterson wrote:
> As soon as I have time I will reference the spec (unless any of the above 
> or others who know the specific answer chime in before I get to it) and 
> see if I can found the exact answer...

XPath 1.0 Section 3.4

  "When neither object to be compared is a node-set and the
   operator is <=, <, >= or >, then the objects are compared
   by converting both objects to numbers and comparing the
   numbers according to IEEE 754."

And "2004-11-15" is not a number, so the cast to a number results in NaN 
... which, BTW, doesn't compare true in any comparison with anything, 
including itself.

I hope this helps.

........................... Ken

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