Re: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing

[Micah Dubinko <micah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> ...    
>    <xsl:variable
>      name="date" 
>      select="document('http://xobjex.com/cgi-bin/date.pl')/date"/>
>    
> ...
>
> If that was file:///dir/date.pl then it wouldn't require
> a server?
>  
No, I think that through file://, you would get a pile of perl source 
that way, not the results of execution. Nothing like CGI processing 
happens for the filesystem. The XML parser would not be happy. :)

> Are there security implications if its just a file?
> I.e. Seemingly I could run any file that way which
> could pose problems?
>  
I don't think so, but I've been wrong before.

Thanks,

.micah