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Subject: RE: [xsl] How to use generate-id() inside an xsl:function without a node available? From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:16:33 -0000 |
> <xsl:variable name="id-node"><some-node /></xsl:variable> > <some-elem id="{generate-id($id-node)}" /> </xsl:for-each> > > this generates unique ids, even on recursive calling of the > function (if the for-each is wrapped inside a function). Not > sure this is "REC behavior", but it sure does what I want. > Maybe someone can confirm that this is indeed the expected > behavior and that I can rely on the method to return a unique > id value within the same process. Yes, you can rely on this behaviour. It's one of the messier aspects of the XSLT/XQuery processing model that there is this slight side-effect of calling functions - it means that some of the optimizations done in other functional programming languages can't safely by done in XSLT or XQuery. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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