Re: [xsl] Does saxon:output do an HTTP POST? (Using XSLT as a Web Services bridge)

Subject: Re: [xsl] Does saxon:output do an HTTP POST? (Using XSLT as a Web Services bridge)
From: Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:29:07 +0100
Thomas B. Passin wrote:

Whether you can do it depends on what you mean by "Web Service".  It's one
thing to POST some (name,variable) pairs.  It's another to construct a SOAP
envelope + payload and to respond to possible SOAP error messages.

Yes, in fact I'd go further - I'm not even particularly committed to SOAP, but I do care about the ability to send an XML request, so I would be equally happy (in principle) if we (all) started calling our Web Services by using POST with the XML as a MIME attachment, as John Cowan pointed out on xml-dev. But until someone can find a way of sending an XML block via a URL, then I need something more powerful than document().

Francis.



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