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> For my own curiousity, does XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 get around > this limitation? In 1.0, the only operation that does alphabetic order comparison is sorting. In 2.0, you can use the comparison operators < and > (or lt, gt) to compare strings, so there's a much wider range of possibilities. In fact, the solution you provide for numbers: Elements/Element[. < preceding-sibling::node()] will do a string comparison rather than a numeric comparison in 2.0. It's wrong, however: you should write Elements/Element[. < preceding-sibling::*[1]] Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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