• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• To: XML developers' list <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:13:44 -0800

> No hacking or home-made conventions required if you're using the SP
> toolset (which handles XML as easily as any other kind of SGML).  A
> formal system identifier (FSI) for standard input looks like "<osfd>0".

Something roughly akin to this is using a named pipe, which I used to
do. I'd have a entity declaration dereferencing a named pipe which
would execute the program to return the content. Pretty good for
getting the current date or somesuch.

• References:
  • Re: User passed Arguments for Entities
    • From: Toby Speight <streapadair@g...>

• Prev by Date: XML 2000, December 3-8, Washington DC ---- Program Expands!
• Next by Date: Re: Embedding SQL statements in XML
• Previous by thread: Re: User passed Arguments for Entities
• Next by thread: XML parser and XSL processor broker
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread