Re: RelationalExpr doing alpha comparisons?

[David_Marston]

Everett Stauffer asks:
>What is the exact format of the "numeric" data as text?

But the expression that started this thread is:
>  <xsl:when test="//Number &gt; //HighestNumber">

If you break down that expression as Xalan would, the top of the
expression is &gt; (or > if you will), which says that a boolean
will result. According to XPath 3.4, the two sides of > or any other
inequality relation must be taken as numbers. I would hope that we
would force //Number to be numeric just on that basis alone.
.................David Marston