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Subject: RE: [xsl] Compare Dates
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:55:29 +0100
> I want to compare two dates to find out which comes first.
> 2000-12-19
> What I don´t want to do is to compare each number, if I validate the
> formate is there a XSL function to see which date comes first??????

If the dates are in ISO format just strip the hyphens and compare as
numbers:

xsl:if test="translate($date1, '-', '') < translate($date2, '-', '')"

Mike Kay
Software AG


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