RE: declaring global variable in XSL!

From: "Tim Watts" <timw@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE:  declaring global variable in XSL!
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:58:59 +1000

You are unable to reassign variables in XSL.

You will need to rethink the way you are approach this problem.

Try :

<xsl:param name="js_var"/>

<xsl:variable name="var">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$js_var='2'">two</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$js_var='1'">one</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>zero</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:value-of select="$var"/>

Also, I think I remember somone saying recently that you cannot declare a
*global* variable based on a condition.

You might want to check on it, but prehaps if you look at your problem the
variable may not need to be global, but local anyway.

Tim Watts

PS

You say "I am passing this variable from javascript".  You do realise that
XSL doesn't do client side transformations.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Syed
> Abuthaheer
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2001 2:01 PM
> To: Gitanjali; xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  declaring global variable in XSL!
>
>
> hi all,
> how can i declare a global variable whose value has to be
> updated based on
> some condition?
> for eg:
> <xsl:param name="js_var"/><!-- I am passing this variable
> from javascript-->
> <xsl:variable name="var">zero</xsl:variable><!-- assigning
> default value for
> the variable "var" -->
>  <xsl:if test="$js_var='1'">
>   <xsl:variable name="var">one</xsl:variable>
>  </xsl:if>
>  <xsl:if test="$js_var='2'">
>   <xsl:variable name="var">two</xsl:variable>
>  </xsl:if>>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$var"/>
>
> the above code is not giving the proper output. can anybody
> help me to solve
> this problem?
> thanks in advance.
> regards,
> syed.
>
>
>
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