XSLT Extensions: Random

Activation

Enabling the XSLT extension for use in your XSLT templates. Add the following XML snippet to your ~/config/xsltExtensions.config file:

<XsltExtensions>
	...
	<ext assembly="uComponents.XsltExtensions" type="uComponents.XsltExtensions.Random" alias="ucomponents.random" />
	...
</XsltExtensions>

Methods

Here are available methods in the Random library:

• GetRandomDouble
• GetRandomItemsFromCsv
• GetRandomGuid
• GetRandomGuid
• GetRandomNumber
• GetRandomNumber
• GetRandomNumber
• GetRandomNumbers
• GetRandomNumbersAsXml
• GetRandomString
• GenerateRandomString

GetRandomDouble

Gets the random double. Returns: Returns a random dobule.

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomDouble()" />

GetRandomItemsFromCsv

Gets the random items from CSV. Returns: Returns a random selection of items from the original comma-separated values.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | csv | System.String | | | count | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomItemsFromCsv(csv, count)" />

GetRandomGuid

Gets the random GUID. Returns: Returns a random GUID.

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomGuid()" />

GetRandomGuid

Gets the random GUID, with a specified format. Returns: Returns a random GUID, with a specified format.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | format | System.String | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomGuid(format)" />

GetRandomNumber

Gets the random number. Returns: Returns a random integer.

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomNumber()" />

GetRandomNumber

Gets the random number. Returns: Returns a random integer, less than specified maximum.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | maximum | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomNumber(maximum)" />

GetRandomNumber

Gets the random number. Returns: Returns a random integer, between the specified minimum and maximum.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | minimum | System.Int32 | | | maximum | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomNumber(minimum, maximum)" />

GetRandomNumbers

Gets the random numbers. Returns: Returns a sequence of random numbers.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | count | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomNumbers(count)" />

GetRandomNumbersAsXml

Gets the random numbers as XML. Returns: Returns a sequence of random numbers as an XML node-set.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | count | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomNumbersAsXml(count)" />

GetRandomString

Gets the random string. Returns: Returns a sequence of random characters in a string.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | count | System.Int32 | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GetRandomString(count)" />

GenerateRandomString

Generates the random string. Returns: Returns the specified pattern with characters replaced with random characters.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Notes | |——|——|——-| | pattern | System.String | | | replacer | System.String | |

XSLT Example

<xsl:value-of select="ucomponents.random:GenerateRandomString(pattern, replacer)" />