Re: Doing HTTP/POST from XSLT is fun!

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:19:56PM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Hi Daniel, I appreciate your Bahh :-) I am happily dropping my
> special stuff in favor of a more standard and more widely
> supported solution.

[..]

> (a) exsl:document can both output a document to the specified
>      url initially by means of POST?

  or PUT, I would say PUT is the HTTP method needed to publish
something, at least historically...

> (b) and that one can set the HTTP/POST request parameters and
>      attributes?

  no,

> if not, is there a change that this might be added to this
> exsl:document specification?

  Well maybe I didn't analyzed fully your initial proposal, but
what you're trying to send as a mix of headers and structured 
data could as well be completely kept as structured data.
maybe exslt:document is limited in the sense that it can't provide
back a return value, but I would far prefer in term of API something
as simple as exslt:document and keep everything as markup rather
than a SOAP oriented API. That API get a tree as input, serialize it
POST it to the target href, and returns the resulting value (a tree
answer). That would be sufficient for XML-RPC driven XSLT interraction.
Simple framework, easy deployment, and everything is kept at the markup
and structure level.

Daniel

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