Applying part of patch in XALANJ-2061.
Dropping a simple variable assignment to 
a variable that is never used.
diff --git a/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/util/MethodGenerator.java b/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/util/MethodGenerator.java
index 7b11184..c83a2b2 100644
--- a/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/util/MethodGenerator.java
+++ b/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/util/MethodGenerator.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
 import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Stack;
 
@@ -688,7 +687,6 @@
 	
 	// Get the current number of local variable slots
 	int maxLocals = super.getMaxLocals();
-	int prevLocals = maxLocals;
 
 	// Get numer of actual variables
 	final LocalVariableGen[] localVars = super.getLocalVariables();