RE: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous at

> I wonder what we can do about random number generation. 

I think the simplest solution for most use cases involving random
numbers is a function that permutes a supplied sequence into random
order:

To deal a deck of cards:

<xsl:for-each select="random(1 to 52)">
   ...
</xsl:for-each>

To select 1000 people chosen at random:

<xsl:for-each select="subsequence(random(//person), 1, 1000)">
   ...
</xsl:for-each>


Michael Kay
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