> If I set up a global parameter and the value is blank, how do I assign a
> value later in my mapping?  

If by mapping you mean the execution of the stylesheet then you can't as
variables don't change their value  once bound.

> And if you can't is there a better way to do
> the above scenario.

If you said what you were trying to do, someone could say how to do it
in xslt.

David

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