Jon,
 
> $foo = 'bar' you are comparing the string value of
> $foo against the
> string 'bar'.

> See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#booleans for a more
> accurate
> description of this process.

Thanks for taking time to explain it and for pointing
me to the XPath documentation.

Regards,
Gowri

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