"Gregory Propf" <gpropf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am trying to write a stylesheet that processes an xml file and assigns
> a globally unique id tag to the output of each node I process.  These
> tags are not present in the original xml.  I thought of just creating a
> variable and incrementing it and using that but it seems that varaibles
> are not really so variable in xsl.  How is this done?

In the general case even using generate-id() will not provide uniqueness -- 
the same node may be produced many times, or sometimes different nodes (in
temporary trees) are assigned the same (re-used when a temporary tree has
been disposed of) id.

This is a typical use-case for a Monad.

I would be at XML Europe next week and if somebody would be interested I can
demonstrate the current Monadic Computation implementation, which is part of
FXSL.



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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