RE: [xml-dev] Anyone wanna speculate about what this means?

From
Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
To
Dare Obasanjo <>, XML Dev <>
Date
2003-02-17T03:14:33Z
ID
<p04330102ba7603d2a4fa@[192.168.254.4]>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Anyone wanna speculate about what this means?
At 6:42 PM -0800 2/16/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>  why is an xsl:variable called a variable if it doesn't vary?

Because it's like a variable in algebra rather than a variable in C.
-- 

+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| Elliotte Rusty Harold |  | Writer/Programmer |
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
|           Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)          |
|              http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava             |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA  |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
|  Read Cafe au Lait for Java News:  http://www.cafeaulait.org/      |
|  Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/    |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+