Yes, if you mean to assign the value to a variable which is declared in the stylesheet with <xsl:variable>. No, if you mean to create the variable on-the-fly and assign a value to it. As has often been noted here, the variable must exist at compile time, there is no <xsl:evaluate> element.

<xsl:variable name="moe-larry-curly" select="xpath/expression/to/element/or/attribute" />
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     "Charlie Barker" <CharlieBarker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:08:15 +0100
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:   Extracting values from the XML data source

Dear XML'ers,

Is it possible to extract a value from the xml data and place it into a
stylesheet variable at the time of processing ?

My reason for needing to do this is that I would like to restrict the number
of 'rows' returned by the style sheet dynamically.

Cheers,

Charlie



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