Re: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing

Subject: Re: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing
From: Micah Dubinko <micah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:21:53 -0700
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

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