RE: variable declaration

Red-facedly retracted...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 November 2002 16:51
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  variable declaration
> 
> 
> At 2002-11-18 16:30 +0000, Stuart Brown wrote:
> >Firstly, you can't use the <xsl:variable> element as a 
> direct child of
> ><xsl:for-each>: it can only be used as a child of <xsl:stylesheet> or
> ><xsl:template>.
> 
> This is a false statement ... I often do this and it is very 
> useful to have 
> a locally scoped variable within the for-each construct.  
> Since the scope 
> of a variable is its following siblings and their 
> descendants, the variable 
> can be assigned a new value when the next node in the current 
> node list is 
> acted upon.
> 
> ................ Ken
> 
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