Re: [xsl] Random number

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Team,
>
> Do you know why the following is not working?
In one of your other messages you said you were using xsltproc. But 
you're using an extension mechanism here that's specific to Xalan. 
Perhaps that's the reason.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> > From: sudheshna iyer<sudheshnaiyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [xsl] Random number
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Monday, October 4, 2010, 4:51 PM
> > I have the following for random
> > number generator. But it is not working.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/java";>
> >      <xsl:output method="xml"
> > version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> >      <xsl:template match="/">
> >      <xsl:text>aa</xsl:text>
> >      <xsl:variable name="rnd">
> >      <xsl:value-of
> > select="java:java.lang.Math.random()" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/java"/>
> >      </xsl:variable>
> >      <xsl:value-of select="$rnd"/>
> >      </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > I am receiving the following error message:
> > Error in XPath expression
> > Unknown function - Name and number of arguments do not
> > match any function signature in the static context - 'http://xml.apache.org/xalan/java:java.lang.Math.random'