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Comparisons of two strings with operators

Operators "=", "!=", "<", "<=", ">", and ">=" can be used to compare strings according to their order. These comparisons return boolean values "true" and "false".

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="bbb > ddd"/>
                  </xxx>
                  <yyy>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="bbb &lt;= ccc"/>
                  </yyy>
                  <zzz>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="ccc = eee"/>
                  </zzz>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa>
            <bbb>How</bbb>
            <ccc>do</ccc>
            <ddd>you</ddd>
            <eee>do</eee>
      </aaa>
Output

      <xxx>false</xxx>
      <yyy>true</yyy>
      <zzz>true</zzz>


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