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generate-id function ... XSLT need help...

 
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Is there a way of generating a particular format of id's using this OOTB function?
I was wondering if there is a parameter of some sort that I could set to generate id's with a prefix or something...
I am aware of the custom extension functions that I can write, but looking for an OOTB thingy....
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Could you just place some text in front of the generated ID? Essentially use the generate-id function as is and then modify the output?
This probably didn't help but maybe it'll spark an idea.
 
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Well, I could if it was that simple. I mean if you are suggesting something like: concat('myPrefix', generate-id(.)). Hope this is what you have in mind, John?
But what I wanted was more like customizing the output of generate-id itself. I prefer not to mess with the generated string, after it is generated. Just the fear of maintaining all the referece id's makes me nervous.
What I was looking for was something I could do before (some preferences or system properties) so that the generated id string is in a format that I want say mmNNNNstr....guess its not possible. I haven't seen any documentation on this.
Anyways.......other suggestions/comments are welcome.
regds.
- madhav
 
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Yeah, I was going for the simple concat-type approach. I looked at all the info I could find on generate-id and there don't seem to be any ways to do what you want.
Maybe you could suggest this as a change to the next version? I wonder if you can do that?
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