RE: Indirection

> It's more fragile than that. You can't be sure that the generated ids
> will be the same even if you run an unchanged file with the same
> processor. (Well if you look at the source of the processor 
> you may see that it doesn't use the time of day to generate random ids, 
> but it could, according to the spec)

Saxon's id's don't depend on the time of day, but they do depend on how many
documents have been parsed since Saxon was loaded, which might amount to the
same thing.

Mike Kay 


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list