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RE: Problem with generating Unique ids

Subject: RE: Problem with generating Unique ids
From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:18:43 +0100
xslt generate unique id
> I am new to XSLT. I struck with a problem. I want to generate
> the unique ids to the nodes in the xml tree and add those
> unique id as an attribute to that node. I am unable to to do
> that. Can any one give me the xslt code to generate unique ID
> and add it to the current node as an attribute.

<xsl:template match="*">
	<xsl:copy>
		<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
		<xsl:attribute name="id">
			<xsl:value-of select="generate-id()"/>
		</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

...will create a copy of your input adding an attribute 'id' to each
element that is unique for that transform.  As the same id cannot be be
guaranteed across multiple runs of the same transform it might not be
what you are after.

cheers
andrew

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