Hello Michael !

What's wrong with RTF ? You could use <xsl:choose> in <xsl:variable>'s content and select according some global parameter.

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Oleg Tkachenko,
Multiconn International 

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Beddow
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:30 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Conditional initialisation of variable outside a 
> template: just checking
> 
> 
> Can I just check up that I've got the right idea about something?
> 
> I have a sheet that needs to initialise a variable that will be in scope
> in all
> templates. I was doing this near the top of the sheet with
> 
> <xsl:variable name="mainID" select ="//body//div/@id"/>
> 
> Fine. But now I'm gettimg data that disregards the project's encoding
> guidelines and uses div1 in the place of div. Since I know I can't use
> <xsl:choose> or <xsl:if> outside a template for a conditional
> initialisation,
> I came up with this
> 
> <xsl:variable name="mainID" select ="//body//div1/@id |
> //body//div/@id"/>
> 
> which works in all the cases I've tried. But am I storing up some sort
> of problem for myself, and if so, is there a better way?
> 
> Michael
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