"Thorsten Tarrach" <tho_public@g...> wrote in message
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> "Dimitre Novatchev" <x@y...> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-03/msg00399.html
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> Not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks anyway.
>
> > P.S. Using extension functions could be dangerous and is generally not
> > recommended, if these functions have a side effect.
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> What kind of side effect? Of course, a stylesheet with VB.net code will
only
> work with the .net Framework. But it was not my intention to publish my
xsl
> files. I do the transformation locally and upload the resulting html file
to
> my provider. That's what I need the url rewriting for.
>

Any function that updates a shared (static) variable. If other functions
then use this variable, the code is essentially dependent on the order of
execution -- but no assumption about the order of execution (generally) can
be made in a functional language and often one will get strange and
unexpected results.

For more information see e.g.:

http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=dimitre+side+effects+xslt&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=uASG4eE2CHA.1560%40TK2MSFTNGP09&rnum=7


Cheers,

Dimitre.