In iTest Xpath function which is pretty awesome feature, the number comparison seems working fine. But I can't do it in string comparison, I have checked the http://jaxen.org/apidocs/index.html, and haven't found a proper function can do that. Is it impossible to compare two string in XPATH of iTest.
A simple example
mapped/Tabular/table1/table/row[username >='Abc']
There are several string functions you can use in iTest but comparing a string as greater or less is not one of them. iTest uses XPATH 1.0. String comparison for XPATH 1.0 is limited to = and !=.
For more on XPATH 1.0 and string comparisons, look check out http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/#section-String-Functions. This is been a great help to me in the past.
There may be a workaround for this depending on what you're wanting to recover. Your query above would find all the rows that have a username greater or equal to 'Abc'. You may be able to do this in iTest proper by using a query to find all the usernames in the table, removing the ones that are less than 'Abc' and then using another query to pull out the information for the usernames which are left. If you put this in a quickcall, then your users would only need to reference the quickcall. The information would still be abstracted from the test case.
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