RE: [xsl] Looping in XSLT(old question, but maybe new problem)

Subject: RE: [xsl] Looping in XSLT(old question, but maybe new problem)
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:36:21 +0100
> Just one question, if foo-bar-temp is a global variable, is 
> the nodeset initialized only once or is it generated every 
> time foo-bar-temp is called?

The XSLT language is designed so you don't need to know that. A
processor that's optimizing for speed will probably only do it once; if
it's optimizing for memory usage then it may do it repeatedly. The idea
of declarative programming is that you leave the software to make such
decisions.

Michael Kay


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