Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> I was talking from purely theoretical perspective. i.e. a plain HTTP
> Web Server that offers only HTTP support.

That's interesting. Because a POST request is part of the HTTP protocol 
and declares an action to be taken that changes something on the server. 
A GET request is also part of HTTP and declares a resource to be 
retrieved without changing something on the server.

Even with the very earliest web daemons there was a CGI implementation 
so that you could handle POST request. As there is nothing even remotely 
standardized that says how to deal with parameters in a POST request. 
Later (or at the same time), GET (and HEAD and TRACE and PUT and all 
other messages) could be handled by a CGI handler.

And since you have all the freedom of a programmer, you can do anything 
you like in your CGI script (C, C++, VB, Perl, Eiffel), amongst which 
serving HTML pages which are a result of processing it by an XSLT engine 
(which you can call in the manner you seem fit for your language). 
Meaning: long before XSLT saw the light, you were able to serve data 
passed through an (not yet existing) XSLT engine.

-- Abel