thnx Jeni for ur reply, how about calling the System.currentTimeMillis()
method in java, can i make that call from XSLT? Also, will generate-id
method give me a unique id everytime? i read somewhere it dosent. I need to
generate this id for a form. So every time a new form is generated a new ID
should be generated.
thnx again!
Anil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni(_at_)jenitennison(_dot_)com>
To: "Anil" <anilj(_at_)realnetsi(_dot_)com>
Cc: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] generating unique Id and System date in XSL
Hi Anil,
I need to generate a unique id(based on date preferably..is there a
better way to generate the unique id?) in XSL to show in a HTML
form, also i need to show the date in another column in some
format....any inputs/ideas abt how i can do this?
There's no way of getting hold of the current date from within basic
XSLT 1.0, unless you count passing it in as a parameter. Some
processors have extension functions that allow you to access the
current date, such as date:dateTime() from EXSLT; you should check
your processor's documentation to see if it has such.
But as far as generating a unique ID goes, you should use the
generate-id() function. It takes a node as an argument and generates a
unique identifier for that node, so as long as you call it with
different nodes each time, you'll get a different unique ID each time.
Cheers,
Jeni
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