Question

Hi im generating html from my xsl and i want to generate a unique id for a tag, this is in order to call a function in js inside the xsl that needs this id…
this is a simplifiyed sample of my xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"             xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">
  <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:for-each select="data/item">
        <xsl:sort select="position()" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
             <span id="spanDescription"/>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </div>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Answer 1

Use a variable and concat():

    <xsl:variable name="id" select="generate-id()"/>
    <span id="{$id}"/>
    <script type="text/javascript">
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('replaceAll(',$id,');')"/>
    </script>