"Mukul" <mukulw3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello ,
>   We all know that XSLT does not allow incrementing a
> variable after declaring it.

More precisely, this is not possible by definition.

> Myself and many of us
> fell that it a major handicap in writing programs
> easily in XSLT. To simulate the variables

Do not try to "simulate" updatable variables in XSLT -- you have to change
your way of thinking.

> we have to
> use recursion and many sophisticated techniques. If
> there is a feature of full scale variables in XSLT, it
> would make programming really easy.

If what you understand by "programming" is not easy in XSLT, then just do
not use XSLT or change your understanding on what "programming" is.

> I am curious why
> this restriction is imposed in XSLT specification.

Read any book on functional programming.




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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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