RE: Microsoft XSL and Conformance

["Didier PH Martin" <martind at netfolder dot com>]

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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