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RE: remote XML with document()
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:41:25 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] remote XML with document()
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
It's entirely up to the XSLT implementation what types of URL it's prepared
to handle in the document() function. Most of the processors I know of are
happy to handle http: URLs (provided of course that there are no firewalls
or other configuration problems). But I don't know about Sablotron.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> Dan Cederholm
> Sent: 18 April 2002 22:00
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] remote XML with document()
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to reference a remote XML file via the document()
> function like this:
>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="document('http://www.domain.com/file.xml')/test/text"/>
>
> Sablotron doesn't seem to like it. I'm wondering if anyone knows
> if this is possible with other processors, or if there's another
> way to access XML on a different server?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> dan@cederholm.tv
>
>
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