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- From: Johannes Döbler <jd at aztecrider dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:00:31 +0200
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Perhaps you can construct the variable only with a XPath expression:
<xsl:variable name="rowstyle" select="concat('myItems', 2 - (position() mod
2))"/>
Johannes
><xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">
> <xsl:variable name="rowstyle">myItems1</xsl:variable>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:variable name="rowstyle">myItems2</xsl:variable>
> </xsl:otherwise>
></xsl:choose>
>
>Why is this not possible? Why is this variable not in scope outside of
>the xsl:choose? Is there no way for me to only do this calculation once,
>instead of doing it everytime I need to know what rowstyle to use?
>
>Sometimes I wish XSL was more like a procedural language.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Kevin
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