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At 12:41 PM 1/11/2008, Andrew wrote:
On 11/01/2008, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cool. I don't think the newly created node ID will work for the use > case, but the external URL call is excellent (and part of a trend, > ain't it). Of course, the URL will have to return a number random > across calls, not just the same "random" number each time. :-) Indeed, but it's not just the URL that needs to be unique per request, it's the random number returned. (Actually, not unique per request, but rather, random per request.) I know that's obvious :->, but once a long age ago when the world was very young, I was quite intrigued by how I could get a "random number generator" to return the same series of numbers over and over. Of course, while I suppose that these days the topic is covered in CS 101, I can also imagine someone as naive as I once was putting up a random number generator that fails this simple test. Off topic for XSLT but not for the thread: http://www.lavarnd.org/ (or if the site is down, which it appears to be, search for "Lava lamp random"). Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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