[xsl] Re: insight into string vs number comparisons?

Subject: [xsl] Re: insight into string vs number comparisons?
From: Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:42:59 -0500
I believe I solved it.

$id was errantly being defined as a node-set.

-Steve

On Nov 14, 2007 11:35 AM, Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've just encountered a very strange problem, illustrated below.
>
> Source XML
> <Records>
>   <Record>
>      <id>1</id>
>    </Record>
>   <Record>
>     <id>2</id>
>   </Record>
> </Records>
>
> XSL:
>
> <xsl:variable name="id" select="'2'" />
>
> <xsl:for-each select="/Records/Record">
>         [<xsl:value-of select="id=$id" /> (<xsl:value-of select="id"
> />|<xsl:value-of select="$id" />)]
> </xsl:for-each>
> <xsl:for-each select="/Records/Record">
>         [<xsl:value-of select="id=number($id)" /> (<xsl:value-of
> select="id" />|<xsl:value-of select="$id" />)]
> </xsl:for-each>
> Output:
>
> [true (279|279)]  [true (301|279)]         <!-- ?!?!!?! -->
> [true (279|279)]  [false (301|279)]       <!-- this is what i'd expect -->
>
> What's going on?

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