For a given xsl file when i run one xml file, i get generate id which are
same
when i change the input xml file having the same structure and based on
same
dtd. I am using msxsl as XSLT engine for processing my input xml files.
My questions are
1)Can generate-id() be used to serve purpose like this ?
2)Is there any other technique avaialable in XSL 1.0 to do the same ?
From the XSLT 1.0 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#misc-func):
"An implementation is under no obligation to generate the same identifiers
each time a document is transformed. There is no guarantee that a generated
unique identifier will be distinct from any unique IDs specified in the
source document."
A more stable unique key generation is to use the XPath expression that
selects exactly the node, concatenated with the URI of the xml document.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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