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RE: Re: msxml3.0 SP1 can't compare??


> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Piers Haken
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:42 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: msxml3.0 SP1 can't compare??
>
>
> 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"?

> And while you're at it. How about speculating as to why XSL doesn't
> support most of the standard XML datatypes, such as ISO dates, for
> example.

Because XSLT has been around since end of 1999, while XML schema is brand
new.


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