• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Anyone wanna speculate about what this means?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:14:33 -0500
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At 6:42 PM -0800 2/16/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>  why is an xsl:variable called a variable if it doesn't vary?

Because it's like a variable in algebra rather than a variable in C.
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