RE: randomizing data

From: SnHndrc@xxxxxxx [mailto:SnHndrc@xxxxxxx]
 
> Is it possible to grab sections of an xml document <chapter1><title></title><para></para></chapter1> and randomize it with xslt? 

> Chapter 10 would be first, then 8 then another chapter in random order.

Yes, you could do that.  I have a hack in the forthcoming OReilly book "XML Hacks" that shows a simple way to randomize with xslt.  Basically, insert a string of random numbers into a node in the style sheet and index into it to get the random numbers.  Or you could pass in a different random string as a global parameter each time you run the stylesheet.

Cheers,

Tom P