Re: key(), generate-id question

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Subject: Re: key(), generate-id question
From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:30:19 -0600

Endre Magyari wrote:

Dear list,

    The problem is that the generate-id() generates stg completely different
and I would like to generate an ID in the same form (xmi.number) with the
first/next available number. In order to achive this, I defined _id as a
key:

<xsl:key name="_id" match="node()" use="@_id"></xsl:key>


    But I have no idea how to make the function generate-id() to generate
the next available id from this key.

You can't control how generate-id() works, but you could do something like write a named template that will generate the ID. For example, you could count the number of preceding elements that don't have an _ID attribute and then add that value to the numeric part of the nearest preceding element that *does* have an _ID attribute. All doable with normal XSLT functions.

Or you could implement a Java extension function that implements an ID generator that does what you want.

Cheers,

Eliot
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key(), generate-id question Endre Magyari - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:01:00 -0500 (EST) W. Eliot Kimber - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:25:15 -0500 (EST) <= Endre Magyari - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:36:14 -0500 (EST) W. Eliot Kimber - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:52:04 -0500 (EST) Adrian - Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:19:09 -0500 (EST) Oleg Tkachenko - Mon, 11 Nov 2002 02:42:39 -0500 (EST)

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