Re: Random UUID in pure XSLT?

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:

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> 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.
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> We do not have an available implementation of RFC 4122 v4 brandom UUIDb
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> 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.
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> Any thoughts or perspective would be most welcome.
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi