Subject: RE: Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous attribute
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:41:26 -0000
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> I wonder what we can do about random number generation.
I think the simplest solution for most use cases involving random
numbers is a function that permutes a supplied sequence into random
order:
To deal a deck of cards:
<xsl:for-each select="random(1 to 52)">
...
</xsl:for-each>
To select 1000 people chosen at random:
<xsl:for-each select="subsequence(random(//person), 1, 1000)">
...
</xsl:for-each>
Michael Kay
Software AG
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