Re: [xsl] Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute

Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute
From: "Kurt Cagle" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:45:50 -0800
Nice. I'd missed this one. Any idea how even a distribution this gives?

-- Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute


> > > To deal a deck of cards:
> > >
> > > <xsl:for-each select="random(1 to 52)">
> > >    ...
> > > </xsl:for-each>
> >
> > But wouldn't you need to ensure that:
> >
> >   random(1 to 52)
> >
> > always gave the same result (within a particular transformation)?
> > Which would mean that if you "randomly" shuffled two decks of cards,
> > they'd come out in exactly the same order. Not much fun if you go
> > first when playing snap ;)
>
> It would be sufficient to get a number representing let's say the current
> time and use it as a seed.
>
> For an XSLT implementation of a randomised node-set do have a look at:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg00182.html
>
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
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