Re: [xsl] Doing HTTP/POST from XSLT is fun!

[Daniel Veillard <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:26:02PM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my final contribution of new stuff today is that I have code, which
> I am willing to share, that allows you to perform HTTP/POST requests
> from within XSLT. This is not so strange as it may sound. You can
> already do HTTP/GET requests using the document() function. But I
> am using XSLT to do web-services, and so I want to call web services
> from within an XSLT script. Here is an example:
> 
> <post:message url="...">
>    <post:with-param name="SOAPAction" select="..."/>
>    ...
> </post:message>

  Bahh ... simply use

  <exslt:document="http://example.com/foo/bar";>
  </exslt:document>

no need for yet another specialized extension... It can then fallback
to PUT or POST.

Daniel

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