RE: A basic question

Alas, I am using libxslt. It appears from looking at the source thatit does
not use a seed in the generation, and random:random-sequence is not
supported.

--D

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Brown [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:16 PM
To: Don Shanks
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [exslt] A basic question

Don Shanks wrote:
> I am just trying to integrate exsl into my current stuff, before doing
> anything heavy I thought I would try something simple. I wrote some xml
and
> xsl that basically runs through three nodes and writes a random number out
> to the transform. The issue I am getting is that the numbers are always
the
> same. I run through the loop three times and gt three different numbers,
but
> always the same three numbers in the exact same order, even if I change
the
> sort on my transform. Any thoughts?

What implementation are you using?

Even a pseudo-RNG should be seeding from the system clock by default.

If your implementation supports random:random-sequence(), you may want to
use that instead, supplying your own seed passed in via an external param.