RE: document() results in timeout

I've just clicked on that link and it took rather more than 20 seconds to
respond. I should think the message means exactly what it says.

It's possible to change the timeout by setting Java system properties: see

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/properties.html

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Sahle [mailto:sahle@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 July 2009 21:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  document() results in timeout
>
>
> Hello,
>
> trying to harvest information from wikipedia with document()
> I get the error message
>
> (Oxygen9 + Saxon-B 9.0.0.6)
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: The host did not
> accept the connection within timeout of 20000 ms
> (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers)
> URL:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050211/#ERRFODC0005
> [which says: "err:FODC0005, invalid argument to fn:doc"]
>
> Where does this problem comes from? XSLT-proc? My System? The
> Wikipedia-Server?
>
> Is there anything I can do about this?
>
> Hope this is not off-topic, Patrick
>
>
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