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Francis, > timestamp, randomNumber and interaction with unsafe, non-idempotent > web-services would be my favourite "unclean" features. Note that a side-effect-free version of timestamp is available in XPath 2.0: current-dateTime(). During the course of a single transformation, current-dateTime() will always return the same dateTime. I wonder what we can do about random number generation. I think that having a function like random(seed?) would be possible, with it returning the same random number for a given seed. That would allow you to do: <xsl:for-each select="foo"> <xsl:sort select="random(position())" data-type="number" /> ... </xsl:for-each> to get the <foo> elements in a random order, which would seem to be the most frequent requirement for a random() function. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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