RE: http request - unexpected characters after documen

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Watts
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  http request - unexpected characters after document
> end
>
>
> Hi Syn-Ti,
>
> I have never known anyone to use document() to call a XML by its full URL
> (http://www.google.com), and am unsure if the specifications for
> XSLT allow
> including an XML which isn't on your own server.
>
> As far as I know, server-side includes (SSI) don't allow includes of other
> host names
>
> ie - you can't do
> <!--# include virtual = "http://www.yahoo.com/include.html" -->
> only
> <!--# include virtual = "/path/include.htm" -->
>
> I would assume this would be the same for document()
>
> 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.


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