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Re: (Basic Question) Increment value of...a variable??

Subject: Re: (Basic Question) Increment value of...a variable???
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:18:18 -0400
xpath variable increment
At 2003-05-30 18:15 +0200, Oscar wrote:
here's a basic question (which I couldn't find any info neither on the net nor looking into this mailing list archive).

It is a very FAQ.


The (programming) idea is to get a global variable and to modify its value,

The side-effect-free functional programming idea is to bind values to variables within their scope thus preventing variables from being modified.


XSLT is side-effect-free, thus classical programming techniques do not apply.

To have the processor count constructs you need from your source node tree, use either <xsl:number> or the count() function.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken

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