HOWTO: Unique ID in XML

[Chirag]

How to create unique id in xml documents using API? Are
there any Microsoft APIs available to generate Unique IDs
in XML Documents?

Thanks in advance,
Chirag

[Dave Beauchemin [MVP]]

Chirag,

You can use the generate-id function to achieve this. This is a function
that is defined in the XSLT recommendation from the W3C.

For the implementation in MSXML 4.0 and some examples, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ltfun_4p7y.asp.

You may also find the XSLT 1.0 recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
useful for additional information.

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Dave Beauchemin
Microsoft MVP, MCP
Momentis Systems
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How to create unique id in xml documents using API? Are
there any Microsoft APIs available to generate Unique IDs
in XML Documents?

Thanks in advance,
Chirag

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Chirag wrote:

Do I have any options other than "generate-id()" to
generate unique ids in my xml document? I do not want to
use XSL or XSLT.

There are some options, e.g. you can merely enumerate all nodes, the
question is how are you going to use this id.
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Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel