[xsl] Conditional Assigining

["Sri ni" <srini75 at hotmail dot com>]

Team,

<xsl:variable name="ID">-1</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="Section[parentID='0']">
	<xsl:if test="$ID=-1">
		<xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID" />
	</xsl:if>
id <xsl:value-of select="$ID"/>

Output:
-----------
id = -1.  In the first instance.

               **********************
Please have a look on the above XML.  The scope of the ID is getting lost 
once i get exit from the if loop which is not i want.  The value of the 
global variable ID has to be set inside IF and then that should be visible 
to outer functions as well.


All i want is similar to this one.
int x = 0;
while ( true) {
  if ( x == 0 ){
    x = 1;
  }
  x = 2;
}

When the loop starts executing first time it will take the value from the 
sectionID and from the next time onwards i shall give the value for the 
variable id.  Is that possible to do in XSL??


Can anyone help me out please???

Cheers
Srini

>From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
>Subject: RE: [xsl] Problem of syntax of filter ?
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:48:29 +0100
>
> > I declare $downloadType like this :
> >
> >           <xsl:variable name="downloadType">
> >            <xsl:value-of
> > select="$tchFile/Delivery/DeliveryDescription/@downloadType"/>
> >                      </xsl:variable>
>
>I think you'd better show us the whole stylesheet, because otherwise we'll
>carry on imagining things you might have got wrong in the parts you haven't
>shown us.
>
>Mike Kay
>Software AG
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>

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