Just to throw in the functions from eXist which are also non-deterministic -
http://www.exist-db.org/exist/apps/fundocs/index.html?action=search&type=name&q=random Personally I would be more interested in having a good random number source for generating strong UUIDs, at the moment we just have an extension function which is a non-deterministic wrapper around some Java - http://www.exist-db.org/exist/apps/fundocs/index.html?action=search&type=name&q=uuid On 6 May 2014 18:51, Christian Grün <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Adam Retter skype: adam.retter tweet: adamretter http://www.adamretter.org.uk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
