Hi,
I was wondering why no one mentioned what EricvdL posted. But taking that a step
further, if (general)your processor supports a URIResolver you could send a key
value to look up up the structured information in an XML config file.
best,
-Rob
p.s. for Eric: can't wait to get the RNG book! I don't suppose there is the
option of publishing the current version of the book in PDF for easy reading
over the holidays? :)
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of
Daniel
Veillard
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Doing HTTP/POST from XSLT is fun!
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:04:46PM +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
Hi Daniel,
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:43, Daniel Veillard wrote:
That would be sufficient for XML-RPC driven XSLT interraction.
Simple framework, easy deployment, and everything is kept at the markup
and structure level.
Speaking of simple framework and easy deployment, the simplest thing I
have seen so far is sometimes called REST :-) .
Translated into XSLT, this gives something such as:
<xsl:variable name="response"
select="document('http://example.com/bar.cgi?order=Gimme+beer')"/>
It doesn't even need any exslt extension (except maybe to encode the
query string) and is just plain standard XSLT.
For those of you who read French, I came to the same (controversial)
conclusion on a real world case recently on XMLfr:
The problem is if you want to pass a bit more structure. That ought
to be possible in an XSLT/XML framework (and without requiring hundred
of pages of underlying specifications :-)
Daniel
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