A small warning:
Do not use generate-id() to produce links that users may bookmark
and/or share with other users.
The next time you generate your HTML document by applying again the
same transformation, the values produced by generate-id() for the same
nodes may be quite different from the values produced on the previous
transformation -- even if the source XML document and the
transformation are identical to what they were on the previous
processing.
To quote the spec:
"An implementation is under no obligation to generate the same
identifiers each time a document is transformed."
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Florent Georges
<lists(_at_)fgeorges(_dot_)org> wrote:
a kusa wrote:
A generate-id() when used within an XML document on multiple
nodes, generates unique id values for each of the nodes.
Is this correct?
Yes. And it is guaranteed to generate always the same ID when
called on the same node. The typical example is the creation of
a table of content: you pass through the entire document in a
first pass, in a mode dedicated to generating the ToC, using
generate-id on say, the section elements, to generate links to
the sections; then you pass through the entire document a second
time, to format the actual content, setting on each section the
same ID used in the ToC (by calling generate-id again on the
section elements).
Regards,
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Florent Georges
http://fgeorges.org/
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