Joerg,

> I found a solution for my problem - I had some other bug in my
> code. Once I got rid off that it actually turned out I
> can treat xsl:variables as... well, variables. In particular, I 
> can write
> <xsl:variable name="var" select="1"/> and then
> <xsl:variable name="var" select="$var + 1"/>

What processor are you using?
This is an error and should be rejected.

Cheers,
Oliver


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