Re: [xsl] Generating Unique Identifier

[Lighton Phiri <lighton.phiri@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much; sounds like that might work.

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On 22 October 2011 22:02, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> At 2011-10-22 21:49 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>> Sorry if my question was not very clearly, but I have two seperate
>> stylesheets that each  generate html files.
>
> Oh, that's new.  I did not understand you were using two invocations of two
> separate stylesheets.  Yes, you cannot rely on generate-id() across two
> different runs of the XSLT processor (even the same processor, even if the
> content of the inputs doesn't change; it may coincidentally be okay for a
> particular processor, but then the stylesheet isn't portable).
>
>> File 1 html output has content that is referenced by File 2 output.
>>
>> The problem is that I am unable to find a suitable way of generating.
>> I was hoping there could perhaps be a way of generating a UNIQUE
>> identifier common to both output files other than using generate-id().
>
> How about using <xsl:number/> in creating file 1's HTML output, then when
> creating file 2's output look up file 2's input value in file 1 and use the
> same <xsl:number/> calculation on that file 1 location?
>
> So, file 1 input has a value, file 1 output names the anchor based on
> <xsl:number/>.
>
> Then, file 2 input has a value, look up that value in file 1, file 2 output
> then names the anchor based on <xsl:number/> of that value found in file 1.
>
> So, you are using only one algorithm, that being file 1's results of
> <xsl:number/> but file 2 is exploiting it by looking up its value in file
1.
>
> I hope this helps.  I'm only guessing since in both of your posts you did
> not illustrate how each of file 1 and file 2 find or use that which you
need
> to be common.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
>
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