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>>>>> "Abel" == Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If using the host language, I can envisage various answers, but >> Javascript? >> Abel> One thing that I dearly miss from the XSLT spec is a way to do a POST Abel> request (i.e., retrieve a SOAP or JSON XML document through Abel> web services). With JavaScript one has the ability to use Abel> XmlHTTPRequest which can be used for issuing a POST to the Abel> server and returning an XML object. I wouldn't have thought so. It's not part of the language. Is it a required library function? Abel> Another thing you can do is check the existence of an Abel> external resource Ditto. Abel> And I'm sure there are other things that cannot be done Abel> through xsl:function. I.e., try to process a ZIP file will Abel> be rather hard (meaning: impossible) in XSLT because of the Abel> � characters. But all these must be provided as library functions by the Javascript implementor - so they might as well as be provided as built-in extension functions. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire
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