Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance

["Steve Muench" <smuench at us dot oracle dot com>]

Didier,

Try the following stylesheet with your favorite
XSLT 1.0 processor:

<AirportSearch xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xsl:version="1.0">
  <xsl:variable name="airport" select="'veni'"/>
  <xsl:variable name="service-url"
     select="'http://ws5.olab.com/xsql/demo/airport/airport.xsql?airport='"/>
  <xsl:variable name="airports" select="document(concat($service-url,$airport))"/>
  <xsl:copy-of select="$airports//Airport/Code | $airports//Airport/Description"/>
</AirportSearch>

This will return you a dynamic list of all airports
in the world (from an Oracle8i database running on
that machine, fronted by our XSQL Pages technology
to implement the "data service") whose name or
code matches the string 'veni'.

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<AirportSearch>
  <Code>PVE</Code>
  <Description>El Porvenir, Panama Republic</Description>
  <Code>TSF</Code>
  <Description>Venice, Italy-Treviso</Description>
  <Code>VCE</Code>
  <Description>Venice, Italy-Marco Polo</Description>
  <Code>VNC</Code>
  <Description>Venice, Florida, Usa</Description>
  <Code>WPR</Code><Description>Porvenir, Chile</Description>
</AirportSearch>

Indeed document() can be quite powerful!

Have fun.

_________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@netfolder.com>
To: <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: Microsoft XSL and Conformance


| Hi Jonathan,
| 
| Jonathan Borden said:
| Again, the most important feature for me, not yet implemented is document()
| support. Hint Hint...
| 
| Didier replies:
| I cannot agree more on that. the Document() function is the angular stone of
| web services usage based on URL request. Just imagine having the possibility
| to make a SQL call with a URL and get back an XML document fragment.
| Furthermore, to be able to get within that fragment the exact
| element/elements through Xpath. As a concrete example:
| 
| document('http://www.mysqlserver.com/sql=select * from mytable')/row/name
| 
| and get a bunch of names from the data base and get it inserted in the
| document to be processed and style it with the rendition language of our
| choice be it to be XHTML, SVG, VoiceML, SMIL and tutti quanti. Yes indeed,
| the document function is where the magic potion is hidden
| 
| Please Jonathan (Marsh) buy a couple of "Asterix the Gaelic" books to your
| team and bring to us this wanted magic potion ;-)
| 
| Cheers
| Didier PH Martin
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