Frank Bennett <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:19 PM, andrea rossato <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I do not see it this way: author has no value and so a substitute,
>> *another* variable, is used instead. As a result, the act of using it
>> suppresses it, which means that the variable will return no value for
>> any other call in the cs:layout element.
>
> If substituted variables are unset globally, does that mean that the
> result of a conditional test for the variable value depends on whether
> the test is made before or after the cs:names element is rendered? If
> so, that might be a little confusing for style authors.

Well, this is the problem I rose with this thread, actually.

I do not think it is that confusing for style authors, though. Or
better, I would find a bit more confusing the possibility of a
conditional returning true and the variable not being rendered, wouldn't
you?

Andrea

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