"Gregory Propf" <gpropf(_at_)cfl(_dot_)rr(_dot_)com> wrote in message
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I am trying to write a stylesheet that processes an xml file and assigns
a globally unique id tag to the output of each node I process. These
tags are not present in the original xml. I thought of just creating a
variable and incrementing it and using that but it seems that varaibles
are not really so variable in xsl. How is this done?
In the general case even using generate-id() will not provide uniqueness --
the same node may be produced many times, or sometimes different nodes (in
temporary trees) are assigned the same (re-used when a temporary tree has
been disposed of) id.
This is a typical use-case for a Monad.
I would be at XML Europe next week and if somebody would be interested I can
demonstrate the current Monadic Computation implementation, which is part of
FXSL.
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Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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