. = '& # x 2 0 2 2 ;'

You mean with spaces. If that is the case I didn't knew about it.

number(.)=number(.)

Do you mean<xsl:when test="number(.)=number(.)">
could you be more clear about this?

<xsl:when test="number('12')=number('12')">
is true, because the string '12' casts to a number.

Thanks in advance.

Pankaj

David

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