Re: RelationalExpr doing alpha comparisons?

[Gary L Peskin]

Dave --

I think that Michael Kay is correct on this.  It may be a bug in Xalan. 
What version of Xalan are you using and can you supply working XML and
XSLT examples that will allow us to reproduce the problem?

Gary

Dave wrote:
> 
> According to Michael Kay, a relational comparison doesn't compare strings,
> but converts strings to numbers if possible and compares numeric values.
> 
> When for example this element is evaluated by Xalan in my stylesheet:
> 
> <xsl:when test="//Number &gt; //HighestNumber">
> 
> where number and highest number contain numbers.
> 
> It seems to compare the two nodes as strings, so for example, 5 is
> considered greater than 100.  This seems contradictory to Kay's statements.
> 
> It worked when I replaced the previous element with:
> 
> <xsl:when test="number(//Number) &gt; //HighestNumber">.
> 
> I'm just bothered that it didn't behave the way I thought it should.  Of
> course I'm just a beginner at all this.  Is this a problem with Xalan,
> Michael Kay, or me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave Kaplan