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Subject: Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:54:02 +0100
 Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous at
> > 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 ;)

It would be sufficient to get a number representing let's say the current
time and use it as a seed.

For an XSLT implementation of a randomised node-set do have a look at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg00182.html



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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