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XSLT generate unique UUID
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:uuid="http://www.uuid.org" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<Payment xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
<xsl:for-each select="//Order/lunch">
<discount>
<li>
<xsl:attribute name="uid" select="uuid:get-uuid(drinkName)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="drinkName"/>
<span>
<xsl:value-of select="drinkPrice"/>
</span>
</li>
</discount>
</xsl:for-each>
</Payment>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Functions in the uuid: namespace are used to calculate a UUID The method used is a derived timestamp method, which
is explained here: http://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-timebased.html and here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt -->
<!-- Returns the UUID -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:get-uuid" as="xs:string*">
<xsl:param name="node"/>
<xsl:variable name="ts" select="uuid:ts-to-hex(uuid:generate-timestamp($node))"/>
<xsl:value-of separator="-" select=" substring($ts, 8, 8), substring($ts, 4, 4), string-join((uuid:get-uuid-version(), substring($ts, 1, 3)), ''), uuid:generate-clock-id(), uuid:get-network-node()"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- internal aux. fu with saxon, this creates a more-unique result with generate-id then when just using a variable containing
a node -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:_get-node">
<xsl:comment/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- should return the next nr in sequence, but this can't be done in xslt. Instead, it returns a guaranteed unique number -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:next-nr" as="xs:integer">
<xsl:param name="node"/>
<xsl:sequence select=" xs:integer(replace( generate-id($node), '\D', ''))"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- internal fu for returning hex digits only -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:_hex-only" as="xs:string">
<xsl:param name="string"/>
<xsl:param name="count"/>
<xsl:sequence select=" substring(replace( $string, '[^0-9a-fA-F]', '') , 1, $count)"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- may as well be defined as returning the same seq each time -->
<xsl:variable name="_clock" select="generate-id(uuid:_get-node())"/>
<xsl:function name="uuid:generate-clock-id" as="xs:string">
<xsl:sequence select="uuid:_hex-only($_clock, 4)"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- returns the network node, this one is 'random', but must be the same within calls. The least-significant bit must be
'1' when it is not a real MAC address (in this case it is set to '1') -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:get-network-node" as="xs:string">
<xsl:sequence select="uuid:_hex-only('09-17-3F-13-E4-C5', 12)"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- returns version, for timestamp uuids, this is "1" -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:get-uuid-version" as="xs:string">
<xsl:sequence select="'1'"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- Generates a timestamp of the amount of 100 nanosecond intervals from 15 October 1582, in UTC time. -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:generate-timestamp">
<xsl:param name="node"/>
<!-- date calculation automatically goes correct when you add the timezone information, in this case that is UTC. -->
<xsl:variable name="duration-from-1582" as="xs:dayTimeDuration">
<xsl:sequence select=" current-dateTime() - xs:dateTime('1582-10-15T00:00:00.000Z')"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="random-offset" as="xs:integer">
<xsl:sequence select="uuid:next-nr($node) mod 10000"/>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- do the math to get the 100 nano second intervals -->
<xsl:sequence select=" (days-from-duration($duration-from-1582) * 24 * 60 * 60 + hours-from-duration($duration-from-1582) * 60 * 60 + minutes-from-duration($duration-from-1582) * 60 + seconds-from-duration($duration-from-1582)) * 1000 * 10000 + $random-offset"/>
</xsl:function>
<!-- simple non-generalized function to convert from timestamp to hex -->
<xsl:function name="uuid:ts-to-hex">
<xsl:param name="dec-val"/>
<xsl:value-of separator="" select=" for $i in 1 to 15 return (0 to 9, tokenize('A B C D E F', ' ')) [ $dec-val idiv xs:integer(math:power(16, 15 - $i)) mod 16 + 1 ]"/>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:function name="math:power">
<xsl:param name="base"/>
<xsl:param name="power"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$power < 0 or contains(string($power), '.')">
<xsl:message terminate="yes">
The XSLT template math:power doesn't support negative or
fractional arguments.
</xsl:message>
<xsl:text>NaN</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="math:_power">
<xsl:with-param name="base" select="$base"/>
<xsl:with-param name="power" select="$power"/>
<xsl:with-param name="result" select="1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:template name="math:_power">
<xsl:param name="base"/>
<xsl:param name="power"/>
<xsl:param name="result"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$power = 0">
<xsl:value-of select="$result"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="math:_power">
<xsl:with-param name="base" select="$base"/>
<xsl:with-param name="power" select="$power - 1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="result" select="$result * $base"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
@nishithjain
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Hi, is there by chance do you have this UUID generator for xslt 1.0 version.? I am new to xslt and I need to generate UUID using xslt.

@bwbohl
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bwbohl commented Mar 23, 2020

Any chance you pick an open license for this gist?

@Dipanshu72
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i'm try to generate uuid for json payload using XSLT and saxonHE version , you have any idea how to do that

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