Hi Bob, There is no built-in function to do this, but it is not hard to write such a function. You can make the function very simple or very complicated, depending on what your needs are. For example, do you need it to just be unique or do you need it increase (as in 1, 2, 3, 4...)? Or it could be as simple as generating a random number with xdmp:random. Another approach that might make sense if you are loading the content from Java is to generate the URI in Java.
Using XQuery, if you want to increment a number to use in your URI, you can store that number in a document and update the document (for example, add 1 to the number) each time you generate a URI. This will add some cost to generating the URI, but can guarantee that you are getting a sequential and unique number. Hope that helps. -Danny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Runstein, Robert E. (Contr) (IS) Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] URI generator Does MarkLogic provide a function to generate a unique document uri? If not, what approaches have you taken to create unique uris? Thanks. Best Wishes, Bob Runstein
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