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Re: Re: Re: Re: Selecting a random node from source-tree
- From: "Martin Lormes" <martin dot lormes at gmx dot net>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:44:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Re: Re: Selecting a random node from source-tree
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> Something necessary to note: ***One single*** number is never random.
>
> Random by definition applies to ***distribution*** -- that is an
> infinite sequence which (in this case) is uniformly distributed.
>
> In case you're looking only for a single number, you can pick whatever
> you need from your environment and it would do.
I am aware that I was implying that "you know what I mean". On other lists I
felt that a scientific view of math stuff was rather not welcome. I am new
to this list as of today.
> As for the inability to use the "heavy" FXSL, well let me expose one
> more myth about FXSL, this is only seemingly so. It's true the library
> is rich and powerful. However, its dependency relations are quite
> simple and break down into small sets of interdependent templates.
>
> In the case of using random.xsl, only the following four stylesheet
> modules are part of the total import hierarchy and will have to be
> provided:
>
> - random.xsl
>
> - map.xsl
>
> - curry.xsl
>
> - iter.xsl
>
> Using only the randNext template doesn't actually require any of the
> above imports...
I get the idea -- Thanks! I'll see if I can use that in my stylesheet.
Martin Lormes
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