On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Phil Shafer <p...@juniper.net> wrote: > Martin T writes: >>I would like to initialize multiple mutable variables with the same >>value. I could initialize variables one by one like this: > > There's no sort of run-time variable naming like this in SLAX. > Variable names are just plain tokens (qnames). > > If your data is an array, consider using a single variable > that contains a set of values, like: > > var $x := { > <item> "one"; > <item> "two"; > <item> "three"; > } > > so $x[1] is "one" (position() is 1-origin). This allows > building data like: > > var $x := { > for-each (some/other/thing) { > <item> .; > } > } > > But this makes updating a single array member difficult. > > The root of this is that XSLT (and SLAX) use a very different > programming model than traditional languages, one that lends itself > to recursion and immutable variables. In general, you are better > off following that model. > > That said, sometimes it's easier to thing of a problem in traditional > patterns. For more background on mutable variables into SLAX: > > http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html#mutable-variables-2 > > Thanks, > Phil
Thank you for confirming this! In addition, the inner workings of libslax mutable variables was an interesting read. Martin _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp