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Re: External programs

• From: Brent_Michalski@m...
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:30:26 -0500

Thanks!

The external parsed entities worked perfectly...

<!ENTITY external_program SYSTEM "http://www.foo.bar/cgi-bin/blah.cgi">

Then, in the content part of the stylesheet...

&external_program;

Worked like a charm!

Thanks again,
brent





Matt Sergeant <matt@s...> on 07/11/2000 09:26:49 AM

To:   Brent Michalski/STL/MASTERCARD@MASTERCARD
cc:   xml-dev@l...

Subject:  Re: External programs



On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 Brent_Michalski@m... wrote:

>
>
> Is there an easy way to call external programs, such as CGI's, and have their
> output displayed in the page?  I am using Cocoon and Tomcat.

You should be able to use any of the methods for bringing in external
resources, these include:

the document() function
<xsl:import>
<xsl:include>
and
external parsed entities.

All of those should be able to accept a URL of type
http://server/cgi-bin/foo.cgi as their parameter. Bear in mind that in
all cases the output from the CGI has to be either valid XML or a valid
external parsed entity.

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