On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Hank Ratzesberger xml@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But I agree with others here that UUID generation would be a common
> use case, especially for XML databases


Absolutely. In addition, a maybe unexpected use-case for the UUID is
that it can be used as a seed for generation of a sequence of random
numbers.

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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev