SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
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About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
The XPath API
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
| Introduction
| EXSLT Extensions
» | Extension attributes (XSLT only)
| Additional serialization parameters
| Extension functions
| Extension instructions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# saxon:assignable

This attribute may be set on a global `xsl:variable` element. The permitted values are "yes" and "no". If the variable is the subject of a saxon:assign 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 `select` expression calls extension functions with side-effects; without this, a variable that is never referenced may never be evaluated.

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