RE: Assigning values to variables

It looks like a pretty common thing to do: 

remember the most recent value (date, time, whatever) in a "global"
variable, updating it when necessary.

Two obvious approaches (one standard, one not) would be:

1. pass the most recent date in a parameter to a recursive template
(recursively)
2. use an XSLT-processor-specific variable value assignment extension (if
your processor has one).

(Can you guess which is the "bad" one?)

Neither is ideal for the task at hand.

You might instead want to use an XPATH query to tell you the most recent
date. And, since the recent date is likely with respect to some local
context, you'll probably want to eliminate the global variable and use a
local variable with the XPATH expression tied to the desired context.

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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Goetz Bock [mailto:bock@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Monday, August 20, 2001 10:40 AM
To:	'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:	Re:  Assigning values to variables


On Mon, Aug 20 '01 at 10:15, Haque, Suraiya wrote:
> Sorry, I had deleted the line where I was trying to do the assignment.
> [ ... ]
As we told you, it does not work this way. If you tell us what you're up
to, we might be able to help you further (It looks like you want to do
some sort of recursion ... possibly)
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Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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