Subject: RE: exslt random:random-sequence() and Math:random()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:27:04 -0000
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> Michael - I have noticed that calling the function
> current-dateTime() multiple-times within one XSLT invocation
> seems to always give the same result even if a significant
> amount of time has elapsed - is this for the same reason?
Not quite the same reason: in this case it's an explicit requirement of the
spec that the value returned is always the same. Though underlying that is
the desire to make it a pure function.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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