"Alan Gardner" <scipiomedia(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> wrote in message
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On 5/27/03 2:34 PM, "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Is it possible to build a delimited string/array? Or does anyone have
suggestions on how to eliminate duplicates while generating random
numbers
in the first place?
Yes, see:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg00182.html
The source you pointed me has uses <xsl:import href="random.xsl"/>.
Where
is
this xsl document? I've very interested in testing your solution.
I mention briefly there that this solution uses the FXSL functional
programming library for XSLT.
You can find a detailed explanation how the templates from the
random.xsl
module work here:
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/Random/Casting%20the%20Dice%20with%20FXSL
-htm.htm
The FXSL library can be downloaded following the "Download" link of the
FXSL
project page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxsl
I suspected you were referencing the Cast of the Dice code. I had already
investigated it and found that it too was generating duplicate numbers.
The
solution I need is a way to have random numbers but not duplicated numbers
(the randomly generated number is associated with a link - which can't be
duplicated or content on the web site will be redundant.
You missed it completely. Yes, random.xsl generates random numbers, which
may be repeated in a sequence.
However, the solution in the first link I provided uses random.xsl and *does
not* generate repeating results.
It is specifically designed to present/reshuffle all the nodes of a node-set
in a random way, and without repetition.
Just use this solution:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg00182.html
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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