Re: [xsl] document() source

["Evert-Jan Stoel" <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fraser,

Yes, the doment should be on the file system, but is is possible to call a
java or php file and let the file output the xml as a string. I had a same
problem and found that this worked nicely.

greetings

Evert-Jan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fraser Goffin" <goffinf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:32 PM
Subject: [xsl] document() source


> I have a need to process 2 XML instances in a single piece of XSLT (I'm
> doing some x doc validation).
>
> I see that in XSLT I can use the document() function BUT it APPEARS that
it
> must retrieve the XML from the file system or a resolvable URI ??
>
> In my case the second instance doc is already 'in memory' (having been
> retrieved from a database) so I really just want to pass the XML itself as
a
> string.
>
> Also, because the production environment in which the solution will be
> deployed is (naturally) constrained, getting access to the file system to
> create a temporary file is unlikely to be possible (plus performance could
> be an issue for some of the quite large XML docs we use).
>
> Does anyone know whether this is possible using XSLT, or will I need to
look
> at a programmatic (ie. Java) implementation alternative :-(
>
> Fraser.