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<sect1 id="variables">
<sect1info>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Keith</firstname>
<surname>Isdale</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>k_isdale@tpg.com.au</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
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</authorgroup>
</sect1info>

<title>Working With Variables</title>

<para>
If the inspector dialog is not showing use the
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Show inspectors</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
menu item.
</para>

<para>
Local and global variables are show in a tab on the inspector dialog. 
The following example shows a XSLT code segment that declares a global and a local variable
</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
    &lt;xsl:variable name="globalvariable" select="'foo'"/&gt;

    &lt;xsl:template match="/"/&gt;
	&lt;xsl:param name="localvariable" select="'bar'"/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template match="/"/&gt;
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
<para>
Clicking with with mouse on a variable in the list will cause summary 
information to be displayed in the bottom of the dialog. If a variable has
 a select expression, for example
</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
    &lt;xsl:variable name="changeable" select="'oldValue'" /&gt;
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
<para>
then a new XPath an be choosen by entering a new value
 for <guilabel>Variable expression</guilabel> then clicking the <guibutton>Set expression</guibutton> button.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>The Variables tab</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="variables_window.png" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>The Variables Tab</phrase></textobject>
<caption><para>The Variables Tab</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>
Clicking on a variable entry in the list shown will cause the cursor in
the main window to move to the file and line number indicated.
</para>
</sect1>