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RE: Does saxon:output do an HTTP POST? (Using XSLT as a Web Services bridge)
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Cc: <paul at prescod dot net>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:27:13 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Does saxon:output do an HTTP POST? (Using XSLT as a Web Services bridge)
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I was wondering about (almost) the same thing... The difference being that I
would expect PUT rather than POST...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Roger L.
> Costello
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:07 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com; costello@mitre.org
> Cc: paul@prescod.net
> Subject: [xsl] Does saxon:output do an HTTP POST? (Using XSLT as a Web
> Services bridge)
>
>
> Several weeks ago I discovered (with help from folks here) that the
> document() function could be used to access dynamically generated XML
> data (such as from a Web service) as well as static XML data. Most
> cool!
>
> Thus, the document() function may be used for inputting Web service
> data. Now, I would like to consider using XSLT to output to a Web
> service. SAXON and XALAN both have an extension element for outputting
> to other files. Suppose that I have a Web service which consumes XML.
> That is, you send an XML document as the payload of an HTTP POST. Can
> the SAXON:output element be used to send XML data to the Web service?
> In other words, does the SAXON:output element do an HTTP POST? If so,
> we can use XSLT as a bridge between Web services:
>
> ----------------- ----------------
> | | | |
> | Web Service 1 | | Web Service 2 |
> | | | |
> ----------------- -----------------
> | ^
> | |
> | ---------------- |
> | | | |
> ---------------->| XSLT |------------
> | |
> ----------------
>
> Now that would be ultra cool! /Roger
>
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