RE: http request - unexpected characters after documen

Michael,

Thanks for that clarification.  It is an extremely useful feature.

I wondered if it might be disabled for security reasons - using another
sites XML and passing it off as your own work.

Now I'll have to find some content to exploit!! :)

Cheers,

Tim Watts

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> From: "Michael Beddow" <mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:52:43 +0100
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> > >  I have never known anyone to use document() to call a XML
> >>   by its full URL
> > > [...]
> > >  Anyone know?  - I checked out the spec and I couldn't
> see anything which
> > >  explicitly said you could or couldn't do this, nor was
> their anything I
> > >  could find in the XSLT books I've got lying around.
> >
> > Why shouldn't it be allowed? It's useful, it works (if what
> you get is XML),
> > and it's not forbidden in the spec.
>
> It does indeed work and it's extremely useful, allowing you
> to keep some
> of your data on a server dedicated to responding to retrievals via
> document() and access it from XSLT processes running anywhere on the
> network. I think the reason document() is under-appreciated and
> under-used is that in some earlier XSLT implementations it was
> inadequately implemented, but that's no longer a problem with current
> processors
>
> Michael
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