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XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations
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XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations

by John Robert Gardner, Zarella L. Rendon
July 2001
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
11h 16m
English
Pearson
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8.1. Declaring and Binding Variables

Variables are declared in an XSLT stylesheet with either the <xsl:variable> element or the <xsl:param> element. Binding a value to a variable is the process of assigning the variable to a value. Therefore, when a value is assigned to a variable, it is said to be bound to that variable. Declaring a variable and binding a value to a variable happen simultaneously. It is not possible to declare a variable without also assigning a value to it. It may help to remember that, when a variable is declared, it refers to the physical location of the <xsl:variable> or <xsl:param> in the stylesheet, and when a variable is bound, it refers to the processor's instantiation of the value of that variable.

Variable values are ...

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