If you have decided to go with a service providing random numbers then
xslt-ish way (set based) to do it would be a service receiving a number and
returning an xml with a specified number of random numbers.
Using a service to provide a random sequence is much more unreliable
and inefficient than just doing this in pure XSLT, as this has been
done by FXSL for many years:
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/Random/Casting%20the%20Dice%20with%20FXSL-htm.htm
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Vladimir
Nesterovsky<vladimir(_at_)nesterovsky-bros(_dot_)com> wrote:
If you have decided to go with a service providing random numbers then
xslt-ish way (set based) to do it would be a service receiving a number and
returning an xml with a specified number of random numbers.
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To Ben:
The cache-append idea was my first thought, but I couldn't think of a
good
way to pull together how to have each request be unique. It's possible
using node-set(), though:
...
...
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="function-available('exsl:node-set')">
<xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
$scale,
'&x=', generate-id(exsl:node-set($seed))))" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="function-available('msxsl:node-set')">
<xsl:value-of select="document(concat('/cgi-bin/rand.pl?',
$scale,
'&x=', generate-id(msxsl:node-set($seed))))" />
</xsl:when>
...
I tried your solution and after replacing '&x=' with '+' it directly
worked on my local web server!
(I did not know that generate-id works in a browser)
But as already posted it did not work after installed on my real webserver
because that does not have enough power to handle the six document opens.
Btw, I really like the solution of David Carlisle to provide exslt:node-set
for IE browsers (and not having to deal with exslt/msxml):
http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/2007/05/exslt-node-set-function.html
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