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String hashing code

Subject: String hashing code
From: Deborah Pickett <debbiep-list-xsl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:36:26 +1100
 String hashing code
A challenge to the XSLT demigods...

I am processing a number of separate XML documents using an Ant <xslt>
task, pulling out the MathML that is embedded inside them into their own
XML files using xsl:result-document (where I render them using Batik).
I want to make sure that the result document names don't clash, but
because they are across several source files, generate-id() isn't going
to suffice.  There are thousands of source files, all with
English-sounding names spread across many directories.

I was thinking of hashing document-uri(/) to produce a probably-unique
string that I can then append generate-id(.) to.  I rejected
encode-for-uri() as producing strings that are too long, and for not
anonymizing the document uri enough.  All the hashing algorithms I know
(MD5, for instance) happen to be heavy on bitwise operations, and I feel
dirty doing bitwise operations with arithmetic.

I prefer not to escape to non-XSLT, because I am providing this as part
of a library that needs to run on almost any XSLT 2.0 platform.

Any clever ideas?

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