RE: Testing / Comparing dates

In 2.0 you can compare dates directly. If there's a schema that defines
submissionDeadline to be a date, you just do

submissionDeadline > current-date()

If not, you just cast it:

xs:date(submissionDeadline) > current-date()

In 1.0 you're stuck with numeric comparison. You can do

number(transate(submissionDeadline), '-', '') > $currentDate

where $currentDate is a parameter in the format 20060323

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Johnson [mailto:Aaron2.Johnson@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 March 2006 11:00
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> Subject:  Testing / Comparing dates
>
> Hello...
>
> I have some xml:
>
> <submissionDeadline>2006-17-12</submissionDeadline>
>
> I would like to test this element against a parameter
> containing the current
> date so as to display two lists, a list of items on time and
> a list of items
> that are late.
>
> As far as I am aware, the parameter will be the same format.
>
> I thought if the dates were passed as integers [20061712] it
> may be possible
> to do a greater than of less than test.
>
> Can you compare dates as they are in this form, and if so, how?
>
> Thanks for your advice...
>
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