> Would introducing this feature will make XSLT really
> procedural?

Yes.

Read the horror stories at the links in my first message in this thread.

Read and try to understand what a side effect is.

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Cheers,

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





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