> > <xsl:template match="/">
> >   <xsl:variable name="x" select="1"/>
> >   <xsl:variable name="x" select="$x+1"/>
> >   <xsl:value-of select="$x"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> 
> Um, I think that's legal in XSLT 2.0. What makes you think that it
> isn't?
> 
> I think that the argument for allowing shadowing of local variables
> was that it allows those unimaginative programmers who can only think
> of the one variable name (you know who I'm talking about, David C.)
to
> reuse that variable name while carrying out several steps of
> processing on the same value, precisely as you have above.

Jeni,

I am sure that if you were designing your own language you'd never
allow such a practice.

Neither would I.




=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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