Re: Matching attributes that contain both &pos; and "

[Joe English <jenglish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaganovich, Yevgeniy wrote:
>
> This seems to me like an arbitrary restriction in the spec. I understand
> that it doesn't really limit any functionality as there is enough
> flexibility in the language to work around it, but what is the reason why
> variables are not allowed inside a match?

I don't know the original reason, but it does avoid
some potential ambiguities.  Variable definitions can
call xsl:apply-templates; if variable references were
allowed inside match attributes this could lead to
cyclic dependencies.


--Joe English

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