Re: [xsl] Problem with using xsl:variable within a template in XSL1.0

["Gareth Howells" <subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can tell I've not slept enough... of course you can use variables
"within templates" - the original for each loop was inside the 'default'
template (match="/"). So... any thoughts where I'm going wrong here?

G

> S'mee again (be honest, you'd miss me otherwise ;))
>
> I had a stylesheet using <xsl:for-each> which worked perfectly. Within the
> loop, there were several <xsl:variable> statements. Now that I've
> converted the stylesheet to using templates these statements are causing a
> stack trace.
>
> The beginning of the original loop:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="teamPlayers/teamPlayer">
>
> <xsl:variable name="playerG"
> select="//results[@week=$week]/playerResult[@player=current()]/g *
> $gPoints" />
> <xsl:variable name="playerA"
> select="//results[@week=$week]/playerResult[@player=current()]/a *
> $aPoints" />
> <xsl:variable name="playerGDA"
> select="//results[@week=$week]/playerResult[@player=current()]/gda *
> $gdaPoints" />
> <xsl:variable name="playerGDCS"
> select="//results[@week=$week]/playerResult[@player=current()]/gdcs *
> $gdcsPoints" />
> <xsl:variable name="playerGDGA"
> select="//results[@week=$week]/playerResult[@player=current()]/gdga *
> $gdgaPoints" />
>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> This has now been replaced with
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="teamPlayers/teamPlayer" mode="playerTable">
>
> and
>
> <xsl:template match="teamPlayer" mode="playerTable">
>
>  { those variable declarations again }
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the original for-each loop, and now the
> apply-templates statement, is nested within a for-each loop, which itself
> is nested within a for-each loop.
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//results">
>     <xsl:for-each select="//teams/team">
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="teamPlayers/teamPlayer"
> mode="playerTable" />
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> The apply-templates statement is currently commented out, as is the entire
> template other than the xsl:template and /xsl:template tags, and those
> variable declarations, so I'm fairly sure they're whats causing the
> problem. Is it not possible to define variables within a template?
>
> Gareth