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Hello Michael ! What's wrong with RTF ? You could use <xsl:choose> in <xsl:variable>'s content and select according some global parameter. --- Oleg Tkachenko, Multiconn International > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Beddow > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:30 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Conditional initialisation of variable outside a > template: just checking > > > Can I just check up that I've got the right idea about something? > > I have a sheet that needs to initialise a variable that will be in scope > in all > templates. I was doing this near the top of the sheet with > > <xsl:variable name="mainID" select ="//body//div/@id"/> > > Fine. But now I'm gettimg data that disregards the project's encoding > guidelines and uses div1 in the place of div. Since I know I can't use > <xsl:choose> or <xsl:if> outside a template for a conditional > initialisation, > I came up with this > > <xsl:variable name="mainID" select ="//body//div1/@id | > //body//div/@id"/> > > which works in all the cases I've tried. But am I storing up some sort > of problem for myself, and if so, is there a better way? > > Michael > --------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ > XML and the Humanities page: http://xml.lexilog.org.uk/ > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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