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> > 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 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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