- From: James Sulak <jsulak@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:57:42 -0600
- To: Betty Harvey <harvey@eccnet.com>
- Cc: Conal Christopher Tuohy <conal.tuohy@versi.edu.au>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
Just to throw out a a couple of other ideas: - you could use p:exec to call an arbitrary program that returns a random number to stdout. - you could use an exising webservice (maybe http://www.random.org/clients/http/, but I can't vouch for it) or write your own. If you're doing a simple http get you can just use p:document and not have to mess with p:http-request. -James On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Betty Harvey <harvey@eccnet.com> wrote: > Thanks Conal! > > I will take a look at that feature. I have approximately 5+ million > records I want to process and the random number needs to be between 1 and > 2874. The variable in the XSLT is working well but without XProc > converting that many files is a challenge. > > I am using Calabash within Oxygen. > > I am ingesting them into MarkLogic and I am thinking about trying the > MarkLogic ingest transformation but I think I might run into the same > problem. > > Thanks! > > Betty > >> There's also the system property "p:episode". >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/#f.system-property >> >> Quote: >> p:episode >> >> Returns a string which should be unique for each >> invocation of the pipeline processor. In other >> words, if a processor is run several times in >> succession, or if several processors are running >> simultaneously, each invocation of each >> processor should get a distinct value from >> p:episode. >> >> The unique identifier must be a valid XML name. >> >> So it's not a number, and it may not have a great pseudo-random >> distribution, but maybe it could be a seed for a random number generator >> in XSLT? >> >> Con >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: xproc-dev-request@w3.org on behalf of Betty Harvey >> Sent: Tue 30/11/2010 7:38 AM >> To: XProc Dev >> Subject: Random Number Generator >> >> I have included the following variable in my XSLT for generating a >> random number: >> >> <xsl:variable name="seed"> >> <xsl:value-of select="math:random() * 1000" >> xmlns:math="java:java.lang.Math"/> >> </xsl:variable> >> >> This is working well in the XSLT and Saxon 9. However, when I call the >> XSLT from Calabash I get the following error: >> >> Description: XPath syntax error at char 14 on line 89 in {math:random() * >> 1000}: >> Cannot find a matching 0-argument function named >> {java:java.lang.Math}random() >> >> Are there any tricks of the trade in XProc to get a random number >> generator >> working in XSLT. >> >> TIA! >> >> Betty >> >> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ >> Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 >> Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | >> harvey@eccnet.com | Washington,DC XML Users Grp >> URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug >> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ >> Member of XML Guild (www.xmlguild.org) >> >> >> > > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 > Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | > harvey@eccnet.com | Washington,DC XML Users Grp > URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ > Member of XML Guild (www.xmlguild.org) > >
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