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Hi Pedro, > Imagine all the things we can do if we could implement a pure XSLT > transactional application accessing a DB using HTTP. Consider > different points: XSLT over Cocoon for dynamic application > generation, the proper XSLT programs (o meta-XSLT stylesheets) could > be stored in the database, dynamic code generation (XML Schema and > XQueryX), talking SOAP or WebServices (WSDL) from XSLT, etc. > > But coming back to your "side effects" complaining, I agree with > you, and I would like to know if there is anything foreseen on this > topic for XSLT 2.0. If we would like to use XSLT as pure XML > processing, a specific HTTP protocol access function from an XSLT > program is desirable (if not compulsory). I wasn't really 'complaining' as such :) I am in absolute agreement that functions that give more flexibility about the information that you can get using HTTP would be highly desirable (we had a thread on the EXSLT mailing list about this a while ago). If you're not already aware of them, you might want to look at the database-accessing extensions to Xalan (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensionslib.html#sql) for some other ideas, and Joerg Pietschmann's ideas about using document() with custom EntityResolvers, which he posted here (archived at http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200107/msg01261.html). Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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