Sorry about that. I tried this on one of my files, and ran the
transformation using saxon. But it generated the same ids for two
nodes in the same XML file. In my program I use

<list2 id="{generate-id(.)}">

That's the reason I asked again. I wanted to make sure I was
understanding this correctly.
Does it matter if you say generate-id(.) or just generate-id()?



On 5/24/10, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So in one transform, in the same XML document, if there were
> > more than one <list2> elements, generate-id() will generate
> > unique ids for all of the <list2> elements?
> >
>
> How many times do you need the answer? Yes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
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