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RE: Importing from database


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Chris Bayes wrote:

> Ben,
> 
> >XSLT does not allow for ODBC calls out... you have to pass in a tree
> >representation of a valid XML document, and process that according to
> >the XSLT.
> 
> That isn't quite true but anyway the easiest way is something like
> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="document('http://localhost/Northwind?SQL=SELECT+firstname,lastname+F
> ROM+employees+FOR+XML+AUTO')" />
> if you have SQL 2000 or the SQL XML Technology preview.

Oooh, fun fun fun:

<xsl:apply-templates
select="document('http://server.com/Northwind?SQL=DELETE+FROM+employees')"/>

:-)

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