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

[Ben Mendis <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vladimir Nesterovsky 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/
>
That's similar to what you would get from random.org. In this case
making a call to random.org is not an option, but there is no reason why
you couldn't add that functionality to the Perl script. And thinking
about it, there's no reason that script has to be Perl. If you want 100%
Pure XSLT it could be an XSLT 2.0 script since it would be executing on
the server, not the client. (Of course, I can't think of a practical
argument for using XSLT 2.0 instead of Perl for this service, other than
to say you did.)
>
>> 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
>
>
>

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