On Jan 14, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Joerg Heinicke wrote:
What *are* you trying to do? "Capture one of the matches into a parameter" is your solution to your problem. But what's your problem?
Hmm... quite honestly, I can't remember... :-) It seems to have been overtaken by events — either I solved it another way, or I decided it wasn't a big deal.
Please don't feel offended,
Not at all! :-)
but again I must say you are thinking a programming way, but the sitemap is declarative. It just does not work this way.
If I were trying to do something iterative or stateful, yes... but all I'm really after is not a variable — as in an in imperative language — but rather a name binding (like XSLT "variables", which are really constants). Renaming semantics are a useful convenience in declarative systems. It's such a universal concept in computing that I didn't think I needed a real "problem" to ask about it :-) (although I just saw a reply from another poster that suggests that my language: "refer to it later" was vague and lends itself to a different interpretation, viz. that of explicit state to be read from somewhere else, like a different pipeline, or whatever).
Thanks! ~ml
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