Re: recursive passing parameter

I want the following stylesheet to produce an output like this:

 The variable value before passing is:: init value ...
 The variable value after passing is :: A1
 The variable value before passing is:: A1
 The variable value after passing is :: B1
 The variable value before passing is:: B1

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">
<xsl:variable name="var" select="'init value ...'" />
<!-- process the children recursively -->
<xsl:template match="*">
 The variable value before passing is:: <xsl:value-of select="$var"/>
 <xsl:param name="var" select="name(.)"/>
 The variable value after passing is :: <xsl:value-of select="$var"/>
 <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

But the actually output is that every before passing value is 'init
value ...". What's wrong with my stylesheet?

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