Subject: [xsl] Re: variable incrementing in XSLT -- XSLT spec From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:45:42 +0200 |
"Mukul" <mukulw3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20030627161043.23348.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hello , > We all know that XSLT does not allow incrementing a > variable after declaring it. More precisely, this is not possible by definition. > Myself and many of us > fell that it a major handicap in writing programs > easily in XSLT. To simulate the variables Do not try to "simulate" updatable variables in XSLT -- you have to change your way of thinking. > we have to > use recursion and many sophisticated techniques. If > there is a feature of full scale variables in XSLT, it > would make programming really easy. If what you understand by "programming" is not easy in XSLT, then just do not use XSLT or change your understanding on what "programming" is. > I am curious why > this restriction is imposed in XSLT specification. Read any book on functional programming. ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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