I wrote a small writeup about XSLT variables some time back. It's
available at: http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/xslt/facts.html. I added
Colin's thought also to this article.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Colin Paul Adams
<colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> "Henry" == henry human <henry_human@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>    Henry> Hi is it possible to define a global variable with xsl?
>
> Yes.
>
>    Henry> am going to define such varable to be able changing its
>    Henry> value some where inside the stylesheet.
>
> You can't assign values to variables in XSLT. Variables in XSLT are
> like variables in mathematics - they are definitions of values, not
> memory locations.
> --
> Colin Adams
> Preston Lancashire


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Mukul Gandhi