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On 12/20/2013 03:51 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 03:09:04PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
Random is probably the worst method you can think about.

Why? What properties do you want from these IDs? Only that they are
unique within the XML document, right?

...and uniqueness is not exactly a selling point for random numbers. (Yes, I do know Version 4 UUIDs -- and I consider them blasphemy :)

Stephan

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