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-(*
- * Copyright (C) 2003:
- * Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
- * for the HELM Team http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
- *
- * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
- * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
- * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
- *
- * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * HELM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with HELM; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
- * http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
- *)
-
-let _ = Random.self_init ()
-
-let id_length = 32
-let min_ascii = 33
-let max_ascii = 126
- (* characters forbidden inside an XML attribute value. Well, '>' and '''
- aren't really forbidden, but are listed here ... just to be sure *)
-let forbidden_chars = (* i.e. [ '"'; '&'; '\''; '<'; '>' ] *)
- [ 34; 38; 39; 60; 62 ] (* assumption: is sorted! *)
-let chars_range = max_ascii - min_ascii + 1 - (List.length forbidden_chars)
-
- (* return a random id char c such that
- (min_ascii <= Char.code c) &&
- (Char.code c <= max_ascii) &&
- (not (List.mem (Char.code c) forbidden_chars))
- *)
-let random_id_char () =
- let rec nth_char ascii shifts = function
- | [] -> Char.chr (ascii + shifts)
- | hd::tl when ascii + shifts < hd -> Char.chr (ascii + shifts)
- | hd::tl (* when ascii + shifts >= hd *) -> nth_char ascii (shifts + 1) tl
- in
- nth_char (Random.int chars_range + min_ascii) 0 forbidden_chars
-
- (* return a random id string which have length id_length *)
-let new_id () =
- let str = String.create id_length in
- for i = 0 to id_length - 1 do
- String.set str i (random_id_char ())
- done;
- str
-
-let new_broker_id = new_id
-let new_client_id = new_id
-let new_musing_id = new_id
-let new_tutor_id = new_id
-