> > 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"?

Since XSLT can sort string values this shouldn't had been really a problem.
I know, the sort algorithm isn't strictly defined, but an XPath function
with at least the same (weak) compare functionality would be fine.

Ok, lets wait for XPath 2.0 :-)

Cheers,
Oliver


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