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

Mike,

>> 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>

But wouldn't you need to ensure that:

  random(1 to 52)

always gave the same result (within a particular transformation)?
Which would mean that if you "randomly" shuffled two decks of cards,
they'd come out in exactly the same order. Not much fun if you go
first when playing snap ;)

Cheers,

Jeni

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