Re: [xsl] xslt 2.0 and alternatives?

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Michael Kay wrote:

> Consider implementing the transformation as a web service and invoking 
> it
> from the client application via HTTP calls. The client need never know 
> that
> the transformation is done using XSLT, let alone that it's done using 
> an
> XSLT processor written in Java.

Interesting idea.  Any examples I can point people to?

As I see it, it'd just involve passing the document and a single 
parameter to the web service, and getting back the formatted document.

Contexts in which it would likely be used?  Web applications (often 
written in PHP), as well as desktop applications like OpenOffice.

As a possibly relevant aside, the OpenOffice bibliographic project 
which I hope to see this become part of is being designed around a web 
service record query model (for sucking in records from remote 
databases).

And does such a service get around the JVM startup problem?

Bruce