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      <h1>saxon:while</h1>
      <p>The <code>saxon:while</code> element is used to iterate while some condition is true.</p>
      <p>The condition is given as a boolean expression in the mandatory test attribute. Because
this expression must change its value if the loop is to terminate, the condition will generally
reference a variable that is updated somewhere in the loop using an <code>saxon:assign</code> element.
Alternatively, it may test a condition that is changed by means of a call on an extension function
that has side-effects. </p>
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&lt;xsl:variable name="i" select="0" saxon:assignable="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="loop"&gt;
  &lt;saxon:while test="$i &amp;lt; 10"&gt;
    The value of i is &lt;xsl:value-of select="$i"/&gt;
    &lt;saxon:assign name="i" select="$i+1"/&gt;
  &lt;/saxon:while&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
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