why did you mime encode that?

however...

> My first idea was to use a sorted for-each, and assign a variable to
> the maximum value, however variables cannot be reassigned. Is there
> another way?

use your first idea then use

<xsl:if test="position()=last()">maximum = <xsl:value-of select="@mid"/></xsl:if>

as the template body of the for-each.

David


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