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RE: Re: msxml3.0 SP1 can't compare??
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: msxml3.0 SP1 can't compare??
- From: Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:07:07 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > Can anyone explain to me the reasoning behind leaving out string
> > comparisons? If there was ever a glaring omission from anything, this
> > would have to be it, surely?
>
> Well -- try to specify it for Unicode strings. How do you compare "A" with
> "A"?
Since XSLT can sort string values this shouldn't had been really a problem.
I know, the sort algorithm isn't strictly defined, but an XPath function
with at least the same (weak) compare functionality would be fine.
Ok, lets wait for XPath 2.0 :-)
Cheers,
Oliver
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