If you're in 2.0 you can also, of course do

<xsl:variable name="x" select="if (condition) then value-1 else value-2"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cknell@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 January 2006 18:10
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: RE:  Problem with conditional definition of 
> a variable
> 
> Thank you! It was <xsl:sequence> that I was looking for.
> -- 
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Xia Li <xli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:34:33 -0800
> To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  RE:  Problem with conditional definition of a variable
> 
> You can fill the blanks with the <xsl:value-of> to assign a 
> value to the
> variable or <xsl:sequence> to assign a result of a XPath expression to
> the variable.
> 
> 
> Lisa