Re: Random UUID in pure XSLT?
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech |
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| Organization | Liberty Development |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10.11.2020 17:36, Piez, Wendell A. (Fed) [email protected] wrote: > Today I write from the day job, where I am researching the question of > how can I go about producing random UUIDs, in dozens or hundreds, inside > an XSLT pipeline, without extension functions in Saxon. The Java > randomUUID() function works nicely when it’s available, but I need to > distribute the capability for SaxonHE and eventually SaxonJS. > > We do not have an available implementation of RFC 4122 v4 “random UUID” > in pure XSLT do we, free to use (and study)? I know the functional > nature of the language makes randomness, um, problematic (when isn’t > it?), HE 10 with higher-order function support (which is not available in HE 9.8 and 9.9) has at least support for fn:random-number-generator, Saxon JS 2 also supports that function. I have no idea whether that helps with generating random UUIDs. --~---------------------------------------------------------------- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list EasyUnsubscribe: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/3329386 or by email: [email protected] --~--