Re: Adding Variables

What I've never quite understood is how to wrap this into a
conditional.

The problem with this code is that you get a copy of the nodes in
somevalue1.

If you want the variable to hold references to the actual nodes,
a conditional assignment is difficult to achieve in XSLT 1.0. It becomes
easy in 2.0:

<xsl:variable name="n" select="if (COND) then //a/b/c else 20"/>

In 1.0 you can sometimes solve the problem with

<xsl:variable name="n" select="//a/b/c[COND] | //a/b/d[not(COND)]"/>

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