Re: Doing HTTP/POST from XSLT is fun!

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:04:46PM +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:43, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> > That would be sufficient for XML-RPC driven XSLT interraction.
> > Simple framework, easy deployment, and everything is kept at the markup
> > and structure level.
> 
> Speaking of simple framework and easy deployment, the simplest thing I
> have seen so far is sometimes called REST :-) .
> 
> Translated into XSLT, this gives something such as:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="response"
> select="document('http://example.com/bar.cgi?order=Gimme+beer')"/>
> 
> It doesn't even need any exslt extension (except maybe to encode the
> query string) and is just plain standard XSLT.
> 
> For those of you who read French, I came to the same (controversial)
> conclusion on a real world case recently on XMLfr:

  The problem is if you want to pass a bit more structure. That ought
to be possible in an XSLT/XML framework (and without requiring hundred
of pages of underlying specifications :-)

Daniel

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