Re: [xsl] XSLT for Mashups

[Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:39 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 10:33, Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/03/10 10:09, Michael Kay wrote:
> >
> >> There's a lot of interest
> >> at the moment in defining features for access to web services, but it's
> >> happening outside the W3C working group.
> >
> > Pity, sound like a good clean addition to XSLT 2.x
> > Any more information Mike/Liam?
> 
> What would it offer over and above doc() and xml-over-http ?

doc is restricted to HTTP GET (e.g. can't POST), and you don't have
enough control to construct an XML SOAP document based on a WSDL
definition and send that as a SOAP payload, using serialization
options to ensure there's no generated DOCTYPE, and if necessary
supplying authentication information...

Liam

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