On 5 March 2010 17:01, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 16:48 +0000, Florent Georges wrote:
> [...]
>>   Thanks, Mike.  But clearly, REST cannot be supported by doc().
>> You can issue simple GET requests, but REST is based on more
>> HTTP verbs than GET.  Not mentioning headers yet.
>
> Before XQuery and XSLT 2 were Recommendations I wrote a proposal
> to give access to the URI resolver that would allow e.g. SOAP.
> At that time it was rejected, at least partly because I didn't write
> it well enough probably.

I had the need for that a few years back, and wrote simple extension
to make SOAP requests:

http://ajwelch.blogspot.com/2007/02/soap-extension-function.html

I think you can do the same using expath now.


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