Re: [xsl] generating a repeatable unique id

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Beddow writes:
 > Actually, reflecting on what Alexander says, I suppose that's the
 > answer: do a first pass through, doing nothing but assign id's via
 > generate-id() as required, and treat the result as the input for all the
 > other transformations. Now I can enjoy the sunshine again.

I am not so sure. If you don't write the transformed result back to
disk, its surely an unncessary processing cost? and if you do save the
result, the ids are gibberish for subsequent editors

sebastian


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