RE: Variables scope - weird behavior of msxml3 ?

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Subject: RE: Variables scope - weird behavior of msxml3 ?
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:39:12 +0100

> Ok, msxml has a bug, but what about the following template:
>
> <xsl:template match="blabla">
> 	<xsl:variable name="var"/>
> 	<html>
> 		<xsl:variable name="var"/>
> 	</html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> It must be an error - local variables cannot be overlapped,
> but why this works in
> Xalan (xalan-j 2.0.1) and XT ? Can anybody check it ?

In the case of XT it is a "documented bug": xt implements an earlier version
of the spec in which local variables could be overridden in a nested scope.

I have to say I'm surprised that Xalan Java 2 doesn't report an error here.

Mike Kay


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Variables scope - weird behavior of msxml3 ?
- Oleg Tkachenko - Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
  - David Carlisle - Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:02:35 -0400 (EDT)
    - Oleg Tkachenko - Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
    - Oleg Tkachenko - Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
      - Michael Kay - Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:36:23 -0400 (EDT) <=
      - Oleg Tkachenko - Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
      - Michael Kay - Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
      - Nikolai Grigoriev - Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:33:53 -0400 (EDT)

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