Re: Random UUID in pure XSLT?

"John Lumley [email protected]" <[email protected]>
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On 10/11/2020 16:51, Martin Honnen [email protected] wrote:
> 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.

SaxonJS2 does support fn:random-number-generator, based on JavaScript 
Math.random() in successive calls. MDN strongly suggests that this will 
not provide cryptographically secure random numbers, nor indeed for 
anything related to security. There is no support for seeding the 
sequence provided.

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*John Lumley* MA PhD CEng FIEE
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