Re: [xsl] Randomly displaying articles from RSS feed

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wendell Piez wrote:
> * other possibilities I may be neglecting
>
> Which of these is best will depend on externals, such as which 
> processor you're using, whether an extension function or (say) FXSL is 
> more feasible for you, and so forth.

A quite processor-neutral approach is to use a URL that creates your 
random number on each request (for multiple requests, make sure the url 
is unique by using the query part of it, otherwise the processor will 
not do a second request to the same url as the specs require to requests 
to the same url to be stable).

Another approach with XSLT 2.0 is to use a newly create node (a function 
can create a node each time again) and use the generate-id of it. This 
will not provide randomness, but does provide uniqueness within one process.

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma