Subject: RE: [xsl] http request - unexpected characters after document end From: "Tim Watts" <timw@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:44:38 +1000 |
Michael, Thanks for that clarification. It is an extremely useful feature. I wondered if it might be disabled for security reasons - using another sites XML and passing it off as your own work. Now I'll have to find some content to exploit!! :) Cheers, Tim Watts > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 31 August 2001 7:43 AM > To: xsl-list > Subject: Re: [xsl] http request - unexpected characters after document > end > > > From: "Michael Beddow" <mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > References: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCMEHNCPAA.julian.reschke@xxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [xsl] http request - unexpected characters after > document end > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:52:43 +0100 > > > > I have never known anyone to use document() to call a XML > >> by its full URL > > > [...] > > > Anyone know? - I checked out the spec and I couldn't > see anything which > > > explicitly said you could or couldn't do this, nor was > their anything I > > > could find in the XSLT books I've got lying around. > > > > Why shouldn't it be allowed? It's useful, it works (if what > you get is XML), > > and it's not forbidden in the spec. > > It does indeed work and it's extremely useful, allowing you > to keep some > of your data on a server dedicated to responding to retrievals via > document() and access it from XSLT processes running anywhere on the > network. I think the reason document() is under-appreciated and > under-used is that in some earlier XSLT implementations it was > inadequately implemented, but that's no longer a problem with current > processors > > Michael > --------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ > XML and the Humanities page: http://xml.lexilog.org.uk/ > --------------------------------------------------------- > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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