Defines new or overrides existing variable with specified name and value.

Syntax

<var-def name="variable_name" overwrite="overwrite_existing">
    body as value of the variable
</var-def>

Attributes

Name	Required	Default	Description
name	yes		The name of variable. Should be valid like in most programming languages.
overwrite	no	true	Boolean value (true or false) telling if existing variable with the same name will be overwriten or not.

Example

<var-def name="digitList">
    <while condition="true" index="i" maxloops="9">
        <var-def name="digit${i}">
            <template>${i}</template>
        </var-def>
    </while>
</var-def>

This example defines the variable digitList which is the sequence of 9 values (digits from 1 to 9), and 10 simple variables digit1, digit2, ..., digit9 with values ranging from 1 to 9.