Hi Daniel, I appreciate your Bahh :-) I am happily dropping my
special stuff in favor of a more standard and more widely
supported solution.
I wasn't really aware of exslt:document, and after reading
its definition on exslt.org, I am still not clear if it really
does what I need. What you may not have noticed was that my
post:message is one round-trip communication and I use it
as in:
<xsl:variable name="response">
<post:message url="...">
<post:with-param name="SOAPAction" select="'order'"/>
<order>Gimme beer.</order>
</post:message>
</xsl:variable>
so, are you telling me that
(a) exsl:document can both output a document to the specified
url initially by means of POST?
(b) and that one can set the HTTP/POST request parameters and
attributes?
if not, is there a change that this might be added to this
exsl:document specification?
Also, IMPLEMENTATIONS in http://www.exslt.org/exsl/elements/document/
says that libxslt from Daniel Veillard (where did I hear that name :-)
is the only thing that supports it?
Looks like exsl:document is somewhat similar to xsl:result-document
in XSLT v2.0. However, still, how do I set request parameters and
how do I get the result from the URL connection?
I'm thinking that may be instead of this post:message thing I should
fiddle with xsl:result-document to allow setting request parameters
(and GET/PUT discipline for the HTTP connection) as well as make it
return a potentially non-empty sequence. This would indeed serve my
need.
Why should I use exsl:document instead?
thanks,
-Gunther
Daniel Veillard wrote:
But I
am using XSLT to do web-services, and so I want to call web services
from within an XSLT script. Here is an example:
<post:message url="...">
<post:with-param name="SOAPAction" select="..."/>
...
</post:message>
Bahh ... simply use
<exslt:document="http://example.com/foo/bar";>
</exslt:document>
no need for yet another specialized extension... It can then fallback
to PUT or POST.
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.
gschadow(_at_)regenstrief(_dot_)org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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