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Trying to answer the original question. Given the requirements, I find the answer suggested by Dimitre to be useful, to use web service to get the UUID generated. Something like, unparsed-text("https://uuid_service"). That should be portable for deployment. On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:06 PM Piez, Wendell A. (Fed) wendell.piez@xxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > XSL Friends b > > > > Today I write from the day job, where I am researching the question of how > can I go about producing random UUIDs, in dozens or hundreds, inside an > XSLT pipeline, without extension functions in Saxon. The Java randomUUID() > function works nicely when itbs available, but I need to distribute the > capability for SaxonHE and eventually SaxonJS. > > > > We do not have an available implementation of RFC 4122 v4 brandom UUIDb in > pure XSLT do we, free to use (and study)? I know the functional nature of > the language makes randomness, um, problematic (when isnbt it?), which > sometimes means workarounds b thatbs all fine. Indeed so would calling out > to a web service if it is known to be reliable. I have thought about > handing a list of UUIDs in at runtime, but as I said, there may sometimes > be hundreds and perhaps thousands, which makes that approach seem a bit > scary. > > > > Any thoughts or perspective would be most welcome. > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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