Re: Attention XSLT API writers

Subject: Re: Attention XSLT API writers
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:01:01 GMT

>  document() is
> a useful function as long as your
> XML is accessible by a URL.  As XML development
> matures, XML will be derived from databases
> and APIs more and more.  With today's XSLT spec, the
> only way to merge two documents without
> at least one document being accessible by
> a URL is to modify the stylesheet first.

A document being the result of a database query doesn't stop it being
accessable as a URI does it? In principle the thing you pass to
document() can fire off a cgi-bin application or a servelet or anything
else the server supports to dynamically generate the document that will
be passed to XSL.


David


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