Edit ACTION-1224: To look at the string-compare() proposal from John, and see whether we can bring this into line with XPath 2.0's compare() function. This should form the basis of a response to John's LC commment http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2007Mar/0004.html]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2007Mar/0004.html