> > The nature of the problem is that I need to do the date comparasions in the 
> xsl.

XSLT2 has  (XML XSD Schema) dates as a built in datatype , but if all
your dates are in teh form shown yyyy-mm-dd then even in xslt 1 you can
just use < to compare them as string comparison works fine.

David

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