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- Subject: RE: [xsl] news
- From: Dylan Walsh <Dylan dot Walsh at Kadius dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:08:37 -0000
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> From: David Carlisle [SMTP:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] news
>> Can anyone please tell me how to test whether a variable has been
defined?
>
>There is no such test. Variables in XSLT have scope based on their
>appearance in the stylesheet not on runtime behaviour, so there would
>be no point to such a test, you always know whetehr the variable is
>defined or not.
What if the variable may, or may not, be defined as a global variable in a
stylesheet which imports or includes the stylesheet you are writing?
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