Re: [xsl] Content negotiation in XSLT

Subject: Re: [xsl] Content negotiation in XSLT
From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:49:17 +0200 (CEST)
"Rushforth, Peter" wrote:

  Hi

> I'm curious as to why saxon:serialize and saxon:parse are required
> for the <body> element?
> Should the extension function not be able to avoid their use by
> serializing/parsing the request/response internally without the
> need for the other extensions?

  This extension is aimed to provide HTTP features.  And HTTP is not
restricted to XML, it sends and receives text.

  I am convinced that simple, general features can be very useful
(especially for extensions).  Besides the extension, you can then write
a regular XSLT function that take a document in input and return a
document as output, handling the serializing and parsing itself.

  But that's a good point, because while serializing in XSLT is easy,
parsing requires much an extension.  So I guess it could be interesting
to provide an alternative extension function that handles the parsing
(at least).

  I have a new version to upload (to deal with proxies with
authentication), and I want to write new, simpler examples.  Then I
would like to improve the interface, and write a stylesheet that build
upon the HTTP extension to provide SOAP functions.

> The use of the the same variable name for global and local had me
> confused for a moment -  but as you say you are updating the
> examples. 

  Good catch!  I will change that.

  Thanks for the feedback.  Regards,

--drkm




















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