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

["Vladimir Nesterovsky" <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
> ...
> ...
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="function-available('exsl:node-set')">
>         <xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
$scale,
> '&amp;x=', generate-id(exsl:node-set($seed))))" />
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="function-available('msxsl:node-set')">
>         <xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
$scale,
> '&amp;x=', generate-id(msxsl:node-set($seed))))" />
>       </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