Subject: Re: new feature desired: return variable value From: Paul Levin <plevin@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 12:52:40 -0500 |
David, Thank you. I had always been setting the value of a variable with a select statement. Setting the variable with the output of the called template works great. My thanks to all the other people who also posted this approach. Paul David Carlisle wrote: > > There is a new feature I would like to see in XSLT -- > > You mentioned two features. > > > I would like to see the ability for a named template to either > > return a value (which could be assigned to a variable in the calling > > template) > > This you can do now: > > <xsl:variable name="x"> > <xsl:call-template .... > </xsl:variable> > > > or for a template to be able to set/change the value of a > > global variable. > > This seems such an unnatural thing to want (even though saxon:assign > gives it to you). Surely it is perfectly natural for the value of a > function f(x,y) to depend only on the values of x and y, and not on > whether you happened to have called previously some other function to > change some global state. > > David > > 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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