Re: new feature desired: return variable value

[Paul Levin <plevin@xxxxxxx>]

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
>
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