On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 at 13:18, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
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> > 2. Is there an alternative way of generating ids (possibly having less
> > human-readable values) that would work in both the xquery and xslt realm?
>
> It looks like a job for XSLT's xsl:number and I wonder whether your
> database xquery processor doesn't provide a way to simply run an XSLT
> transformation.

Maybe, if using Saxon for xslt and xquery, the same ID function is used?
   Perhaps ask on the Saxon list?

regards

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