Re: inline call to external process

[Eric Smith]

> Is it possible to invoke an external process from within xml,
> like a script (shell, perl, whatever) that returns xml markup?
> This returned code is then parsed by the xslt processor inplace
> just like the static code.
>
> --


With standard xslt1.0, the only way would be if you could access the process
through a url.  Then you could get the results using document().  But it's
not usually a good idea to let a cgi process run an arbitrary shell
script...and you couldn't do that on the fly in the middle of processing.

You could probably do this through various processor-specific extensions.

Cheers,

Tom P


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