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Hip hei! > How do yuo generate a random number. most algs require integers > and modulo > arithmetic - everything is a double in xslt> With an extension, e.g. in Xalan-J you could do <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java" exclude-result-prefixes="java"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:variable name="max" select="10" /> <xsl:variable name="min" select="4" /> <xsl:variable name="R" select="java:java.util.Random.new()" /> <xsl:value-of select="($max -$min) * java:nextDouble($R) + $min" /> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> and if you want an integer, just use the round() function. Hope this helps, Jarno - Ren & Stimpy: Happy Happy Joy Joy Song XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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