Re: [xsl] How to use generate-id() inside an xsl:function without a node available?

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/27/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think in this case generate-id() will be applied on the same node
> > again and again and will return the same string -- this is why I want
> > always to have a new copy of it -- or am I wrong?
>
> no a literal result element like <x/> is (more or less) the same as using
> <xsl:element name="x"/> it's a single node in the stylesheet but it
> generates a new node each time it's executed, and generate-id() is being
> applied to that result.


Unless the XSLT processor decides to "optimize" this and makes the
node global(static) -- moves it outside the scope of the function....

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