RE: [xsl] Randomly displaying articles from RSS feed

["Wei, Alice J." <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

   True, using the fn:current-dateTime() will return the same value each
time.

  However, when you set some kind of statement, to suggest something like when
the value of the "second" is, for example 1-4, will return article 1, 5-6,
article 2, etc, will return something customizable for the "frequency of the
result to be displayed."

   This may not be the best way to do it, but when you have only a small
number of articles to deal with, this should be able to work without getting
into too much parameter settings.

Good luck.

Alice

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Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
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From: Colin Paul Adams [colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:47 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Randomly displaying articles from RSS feed

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Andrew> I think Abel was implying that you would need to append a
    Andrew> timestamp to the query string to make it a unique url per
    Andrew> request, ensuring a new number would be returned each time
    Andrew> (avoiding the rules of the doc() function and perhaps
    Andrew> caching along the way)

How are you going to do this?

fn:current-dateTime() will return the same value each time.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire