Re: generating unique Id and System date in XSL

thnx Jeni for ur reply, how about calling the System.currentTimeMillis()
method in java, can i make that call from XSLT? Also, will generate-id
method give me a unique id everytime? i read somewhere it dosent. I need to
generate this id for a form.  So every time a new form is generated a new ID
should be generated.

thnx again!
Anil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Anil" <anilj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:42 AM
Subject: Re:  generating unique Id and System date in XSL


> Hi Anil,
>
> > I need to generate a unique id(based on date preferably..is there a
> > better way to generate the unique id?) in XSL to show in a HTML
> > form, also i need to show the date in another column in some
> > format....any inputs/ideas abt how i can do this?
>
> There's no way of getting hold of the current date from within basic
> XSLT 1.0, unless you count passing it in as a parameter. Some
> processors have extension functions that allow you to access the
> current date, such as date:dateTime() from EXSLT; you should check
> your processor's documentation to see if it has such.
>
> But as far as generating a unique ID goes, you should use the
> generate-id() function. It takes a node as an argument and generates a
> unique identifier for that node, so as long as you call it with
> different nodes each time, you'll get a different unique ID each time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeni
>
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
>
>
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