Re: [xsl] Re: question on random numbers for browser XSLT

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> If you have decided to go with a service providing random numbers then
> xslt-ish way (set based) to do it would be a service receiving a number and
> returning an xml with a specified number of random numbers.
>

Using a service to provide a random sequence is much more unreliable
and inefficient than just doing this in pure XSLT, as this has been
done by FXSL for many years:

   http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/Random/Casting%20the%20Dice%20with%20
FXSL-htm.htm


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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Vladimir
Nesterovsky<vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you have decided to go with a service providing random numbers then
> xslt-ish way (set based) to do it would be a service receiving a number and
> returning an xml with a specified number of random numbers.
> --
> Vladimir Nesterovsky
> http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/
>
>
>> To Ben:
>> The cache-append idea was my first thought, but I couldn't think of a
>
> good
>>
>> way to pull together how to have each request be unique. It's possible
>> using node-set(), though:
>> ...
>> ...
>> B  B <xsl:choose>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="function-available('exsl:node-set')">
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
>
> $scale,
>>
>> '&amp;x=', generate-id(exsl:node-set($seed))))" />
>> B  B  B </xsl:when>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="function-available('msxsl:node-set')">
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
>
> $scale,
>>
>> '&amp;x=', generate-id(msxsl:node-set($seed))))" />
>> B  B  B </xsl:when>
>> ...
>
> I tried your solution and after replacing '&amp;x=' with '+' it directly
> worked on my local web server!
> (I did not know that generate-id works in a browser)
>
> But as already posted it did not work after installed on my real webserver
> because that does not have enough power to handle the six document opens.
>
> Btw, I really like the solution of David Carlisle to provide exslt:node-set
> for IE browsers (and not having to deal with exslt/msxml):
> http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/2007/05/exslt-node-set-function.html