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the requirement was "xslt2" which doesn't supply a random number concept so no create-guid.
You can use a rather slow algorithm based on date-time functions, string manipulation, etc, but you can't guarantee that you will get a unique value probably.
generate-id will return a unique value based on the instance file, which may be sufficient, but if you need something approaching "globally unique" that isn't something xslt is prepared to offer you.
Extension functions might work, if you want to write your random id generator in java or c# or something.
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and avoid the V6Rx series drivers, use the V5Rx series.
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hi,
with this kind of event it s better to send it to the support team then to here -- not that you are trying to hide it from the world, it's just that if it is a bug, the forum can't really help you.
Make sure you send a test case so they can recreate it
http://www.altova.com/support_center.html
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v2010 does this. Simply connect something to the File: connector at the top of the output component. see the docs.
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Waqar wrote:My SMP already expired :(, seems to renew my SMP for only this issue.
Can't help you with that. SMP is a good thing.
But, file it anyway. You'll get back a "thanks for bringing this to our attention" :) but at least it will be on record.
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Ok, the current run shows: 14325345
And my system clock shows 14:32, so I'm assuming that the run was at 14:32:53, but no idea if the auto-complete is supplying decimal seconds, but this violates ISO 8601:
(en.wikidpedia.org/)
Decimal fractions may also be added to any of the three time elements. A decimal point, either a comma or a dot (without any preference as stated most recently in resolution 10 of the 22nd General Conference CGPM in 2003), is used as a separator between the time element and its fraction. A fraction may only be added to the lowest order time element in the representation. To denote "14 hours, 30 and one half minutes", do not include a seconds figure. Represent it as "14:30,5" or "1430,5". There is no limit on the number of decimal places for the decimal fraction. However, the number of decimal places needs to be agreed to by the communicating parties.
So there is no decimal, so that at least is incorrect.
Funnily enough... my original -in-jest- post of "substring(.,1,8)" is probably exactly correct but not settable where you need it. Use a "now()" fed into "time-from-datetime()" fed into "substring()", with constant numbers of 1 and 8 as the start-at and length fields. Feed _that_ into the F337 where this incorrect time is being generated...
Going through the substring is suggested, since my check of now()->time-from-datetime() is also returning 8 characters, which doesn't seem correct, and it might mean the occasional 9 or 10 character string.
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interesting.
"" gives that message, "12:14:16" results in "121416" in the output file, but when I don't connect anything at all, I get 14215735.
hm hm hm. interesting.
seems to contradict this page (very bottom) as 14215735 isn't ISO 8601 I don't think.
You should file this with Altova support I think.
rip
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now that you've posted, come back to your post and you'll find a "attachment" button on it. Click that, follow steps. See option two of this post for more information.
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aha, ok, now that is the kind of interesting information that would have been very very helpful in the first post, sadly it was buried in my misinterpretation of what you meant by "system". "Auto-complete" would have been a better choice, assuming you don't have anything connected to the F337. Can you show us the mapping?
A test using Altova's example files for 850, disconnecting the F337 connections, doesn't get me anything that looks like a nonsense value.
Short term, try connecting a zero-length constant to the F337 connector, which will defeat any auto-complete that might be happening.
what do you get?
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because I was looking in the wrong place. Doh.
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Sure, he said, jokingly,
substring(.,1,8)
but that is probably not what you want.
F337 looks like time, based on the random year group 857 file I pulled up. Time is 8 characters, probably HH:MM:SS
What is 202754906? Seconds since epoch?
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