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Re: Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute

2003-03-11 12:45:50
Nice. I'd missed this one. Any idea how even a distribution this gives?

-- Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute


To deal a deck of cards:

<xsl:for-each select="random(1 to 52)">
   ...
</xsl:for-each>

But wouldn't you need to ensure that:

  random(1 to 52)

always gave the same result (within a particular transformation)?
Which would mean that if you "randomly" shuffled two decks of cards,
they'd come out in exactly the same order. Not much fun if you go
first when playing snap ;)

It would be sufficient to get a number representing let's say the current
time and use it as a seed.

For an XSLT implementation of a randomised node-set do have a look at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg00182.html



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
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