"Mukul" <mukulw3(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote in message
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Hello ,
We all know that XSLT does not allow incrementing a
variable after declaring it.
More precisely, this is not possible by definition.
Myself and many of us
fell that it a major handicap in writing programs
easily in XSLT. To simulate the variables
Do not try to "simulate" updatable variables in XSLT -- you have to change
your way of thinking.
we have to
use recursion and many sophisticated techniques. If
there is a feature of full scale variables in XSLT, it
would make programming really easy.
If what you understand by "programming" is not easy in XSLT, then just do
not use XSLT or change your understanding on what "programming" is.
I am curious why
this restriction is imposed in XSLT specification.
Read any book on functional programming.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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