RE: Stylesheet accessing dynamically generated XML doc

Yes, if the XSLT processor supports http URLs at all (most do but it's not
mandatory), then any http URL should work. It's probably best to avoid
fragment identifiers (uri#fragment), however.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Roger L.
> Costello
> Sent: 09 May 2002 13:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: paul@xxxxxxxxxxx; costello@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Stylesheet accessing dynamically generated XML
> documents?
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> As we know the document() function may be used to access
> additional XML
> documents.
>
> On the internet there are documents that are static and we
> may access them
> by giving the URL plus filename, e.g.,
>
> http://www.xfront.com/foo.xml
>
> The XSLT document() function can easily access such documents:
>
> document('http://www.xfront.com/foo.xml')
>
> Oftentimes on the internet documents are dynamically generate
> (by a GCG
> script, a Java servlet, etc).  For example, this invocation
> may result in
> serving up an XML document:
>
> http://www.xfront.com/servlet/getXML
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Can I pass to the document() function a URL of a web site that
> dynamically generates XML, e.g.,
>
>     document('http://www.xfront.com/servlet/getXML')
>
> 2. Extending upon 1, can I additionally pass arguments to the
> Web site,
> e.g.,
>
>      document('http://www.xfront.com/servlet/getXML?arg1=a&arg2=b')
>
> This would be most cool if this could be done, and would be
> in line with
> the stuff that Paul Prescod is talking about in the REST discussions.
> /Roger
>
>
>
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