Re: Re: generating a repeatable unique id

I don't see why you can't do exactly the same on the server.

Using IIS you could have the same Javascript code as part of an ASP page.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

--- Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dimitre Novatchev writes:
>  > Both of this solutions are not too efficient.
> but portable!
> 
>  > There's a third one:
>  > 
>  > Using DOM (I'm usng MSXML DOM), one can have the following Javascript code:
> 
> Yes, but the point of my exercise is to get stuff server-side, not on
> the client (my users don't have an MSXML DOM to hand). If the problem
> was shifted to the client, I'd ship the whole document, and not get
> involved in later requests for a section.
> 
>  > So Sebastian, this is one of the most efficient ways (if in any
>  > case you'll have to pass a parameter to the stylesheet) to
>  > "dynamically" interprete an XPath expression, that will be known
>  > only at "run time".
> 
> I like the idea, and I agree, it would the right way to proceed
> client-side.
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 


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