[xslt] Variable scope in for-each

[Claus Augusti <claus augusti schlund de>]

Hi,

while trying to port an application from Linux to Windows (using libxml 
10019 and libxslt 20423 on both machines), I got a "redefining name" 
error on Windows. We're using something like the following quite often:

<xsl:for-each select="./someNode">
 <xsl:variable name="id" select="./elem[ id]"/>
 ...
</xsl:for-each>

After looking into the specs I'm not quite sure how to interpret the 
section on variables in conjunction with for-each. It's clear that a 
variable binding is visible for the following siblings and its 
descendants. But how to interprete that inside for-each elements? Is the 
for-each loop re-entered for every node letting the binding become 
invisible or not? Thus, is the above construct correct XSLT or not?

-Claus

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