And here is the Random Module of BaseX: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Random_Module
Similar to Zorba, most functions are non-deterministic. Is there any particular reason why the official random functions need to be deterministic? Hope this helps, Christian On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Matthias Brantner <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael > > Here is the documentation of a module containing functions to generate > random numbers or strings with Zorba. > > http://www.zorba.io/documentation/latest/modules/zorba/xdm/atomic/random > > Please note that some functions are using Zorba's nondeterministic annotation. > Also note, that there is one function that creates uuids returned as string. > > The functions have proven themselves useful in plenty of scenarios like > password or web session token generation. > > I hope you find this module useful. > > Matthias > > On May 6, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The W3C WGs are looking at the idea of introducing a random-number function >> of some kind in XPath 3.1. The challenge of course is making this both >> usable and a pure function with no side-effects. We have various design >> ideas which we need to test against requirements. >> >> If you have any applications that use or need such a function, please could >> I have a brief description of the way it uses random numbers, e.g. just >> wanting a single random number, a random permutation of 52 integers, an >> arbitrary sequence of random numebrs for test data generation, etc. >> >> If you're currently using the EXSLT random-sequence() function, please share >> your experience with it. >> >> Michael Kay >> Saxonica >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
