• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
  • Using the XPath Query Editor
  • Sample Data for Examples and Practice
  • Getting Started with Queries
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
    • About Comparison Operators
    • How the XPath Processor Evaluates Comparisons
    • Comparing Node Sets
    • Comparing Single Values With = and !=
    • Comparing Single Values With <=, <, >, and >=
    • Priority of Object Types in Comparisons
    • Examples of Comparisons
    • Operating on Boolean Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 13: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 14: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 15: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 16: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 17: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Examples of Comparisons

The following query finds all authors whose last name is Bob:

author[last-name = "Bob"] 

The next query finds authors whose degrees are not from Harvard:

author/degree[@from != "Harvard"] 

The following query returns prices that are greater than 20 dollars. This assumes that the current context contains one or more price elements.

price [. > 20]