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Subject: RE: Reference to variable cannot be resolved.
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:52:50 -0000
RE:  Reference to variable cannot be resolved.
> The 
> few programming classes I've taken (using procedural 
> languages) have taught that a lot of global variables are a 
> Bad Thing, but maybe that axiom doesn't necessarily apply to XSLT.
> 

Global variables are a bad thing in procedural programming because they
can be updated from anywhere, which leads to a lot of errors.

They do no harm in XSLT because they are only evaluated once.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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