Re: Conditional Assigining

You can't do that in xslt.  Once you create a variable (within a certain
scope) you can't change it.

What you do instead is either to call the same template recursively, passing
in the test value in a parameter, or calling a template repeatedly with a
mode attribute, again passing in your test value as a parameter.

Tom P

[Sri ni]>
> <xsl:variable name="ID">-1</xsl:variable>
> <xsl:for-each select="Section[parentID='0']">
> <xsl:if test="$ID=-1">
> <xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID" />
> </xsl:if>
> id <xsl:value-of select="$ID"/>
>
> Output:
> -----------
> id = -1.  In the first instance.
>
>                **********************
> Please have a look on the above XML.  The scope of the ID is getting lost
> once i get exit from the if loop which is not i want.  The value of the
> global variable ID has to be set inside IF and then that should be visible
> to outer functions as well.
>
>
> All i want is similar to this one.
> int x = 0;
> while ( true) {
>   if ( x == 0 ){
>     x = 1;
>   }
>   x = 2;
> }
>



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