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The xsl:eval Element

In previous hours, you used JavaScript to perform the data-reading operations. The sections of JavaScript code were delimited by the opening and closing <SCRIPT> tags where the scripting language was specified by assignment. The XSL equivalent of this is the <xsl:eval> tag.

An xsl:eval Example

To demonstrate how to embed a section of JavaScript code in an XSL file, you'll need to recall a function present in the JavaScript library. This function is the random number generator, which can be used to generate an arbitrary number within any desired range. It's a member of the Math library, so the notation to call it is as follows:

     Math.random();

It will return a floating point number between 0 and 1.

Since your goal is to ...