In XSLT 2.0 you can get the current date and time using current-dateTime(),
and you can then convert this to a number by subtracting a magic baseline
dateTime to give a duration, and then divide the duration by a fixed
duration such as PT1S to get a number; you can then cast the number to an
xs:long.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hailstone [mailto:matthew.hailstone@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 July 2009 21:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Generate Dynamic long value
> 
> Is there any way to generate a dynamic long value or create a 
> long value that represents the current time in a stylesheet?
> 
> I need to do this inside the stylesheet independent of any 
> data being transformed (coming in).
> 
> i.e.
> 
> stylesheet:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0"> <xsl:output media-type="text/xml" method="xml" 
> indent="yes"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:element name="dynamiclongvalue"><xsl:value-of 
> select="some function of xsl"/></xsl:element> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> output:
> 
> <dynamiclongvalue>1234567890837683</dynamiclongvalue>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew