The new <jt:set> tag is overly aggressive
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My colleague try this in a template, and he tells me that if this tag is place in a cell, then after evaluating this, the content of the whole cell will be emptied.
This means that we cannot use this tag unless we can place it in a dedicated cell, which is used for nothing else. Or, if we want to assign values to N variables, then it requires N cells that cannot be used for anything else.
Therefore I suggest changing the behaviour: if the <jt:set> tag is evaluated, then it should be removed from the cell and the remaining part should be re-evaluated. (If there is a second