Re: XSLT & SQL

I have "http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt" open in a browser, so if you could
direct me to the relevant portion I would be obliged. As it is, I see
a distinction between "XSLT assumes an XSLT processor operating on data
external to itself..." and "XSLT assumes that an input tree is made available
...", but the difference escapes me. Is there any processor which works
using data which is not external to itself, and if so, how is it used?

-- 
Charles Knell
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---- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > XSLT assumes an XSLT processor operating on
> > data external to itself and thereby access to external processes.
> 
> Not really.
> XSLT assumes that an input tree is made available but how that tree
> is
> made available is out of scope for the spec.
> the document function may give access to data at some URI but a
> conformant XSLT processor isn't obliged to support _any_ URI schemes.
> 
> David
> 
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