<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="extensions" page="attributes" subpage="assignable"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:assignable</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: saxon:assignable"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>saxon:assignable</h1> <p>This attribute may be set on a global <code>xsl:variable</code> element. The permitted values are "yes" and "no". If the variable is the subject of a <a class="bodylink" href="../../extensions/instructions/assign.xml">saxon:assign</a> instruction, it must be set to the value "yes". Setting this value to "yes" also ensures that the variable is actually evaluated, which is useful if the <code>select</code> expression calls extension functions with side-effects; without this, a variable that is never referenced may never be evaluated.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="explain.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>