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RE: [xml-dev] Variables in XSL!
No, it is not possible to assign to a variable in XSL / XSLT. XSL is
intentionally designed to be free from side-effects, meaning a sections
could be evaluated in any order. Obviously, assignment to a variable would
break this. For an explanation of why this is a good thing, see Michael
Kay's XSLT 2nd Edition, p. 37-38.
So, obviously XSL is a very different kind of language. When you think
VBScript, you are thinking about _procedural_ programming languages. XSL is
a _declarative_ language. This doesn't mean you can't achieve the behavior
you want, it just means that you have to think about it in a different way.
When you write i=i+1 you are iterating over a set of values, which you can't
do in XSL. But you can use recursion which is provided by the
<xsl:apply-templates> and <xsl:for-each> tags. Again see Michael Kay's book,
the section on Computational Stylesheets, p. 608-627, esp. p. 620 which
virtually restates your problem.
Cheers,
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Thornqvist [mailto:thornqvist_peter@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 20:03
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Variables in XSL!
Hi!
Is it possible to have variables/counters
in XSL, like in vbscript: i=i+1 etc?.
I would like to keep track of when the 10th value comes and then
do a line break...
/Peter
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