Cheers,
Wendell

Hi,
I would like to compare elements and determine if any element is out of alphabetical order, for XPath 1.0. For example,

<Elements>
<Element>AAA</Element>
<Element>BBB</Element>
<Element>CCCC</Element>
</Element>AAAAAA</Element>
</Elements>

I would like this to register that the final element is out of sequence. I thought about doing this with preceding-sibling, unfortunately, it turns out that doesn't work for strings. If they are numbers, I can do it.

For example, if I had numbers, such as,
<Elements>
<Element>1</Element>
<Element>2</Element>
<Element>3</Element>
</Element>1</Element>
</Elements>

And I used:

Elements/Element[. < preceding-sibling::node()]

I would get the last element. I suspect I can do this with a template (manually compare the current node to the preceding-sibling), but I was wondering if there was a simple way of doing this.

If there isn't, can you please keep the non simple solution (ie the one where you have to create a template to compare two strings) to yourself as I would like to have a stab at it myself.

Thanks.

--
Kamal Bhatt

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