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Joshua Allen wrote: > > > But data exposed using SOAP usually cannot retrieved using GET, and > > therefore isn't easily accessible using XSLT's document() function. > > XSLT document() can't do POST either. Saying that "all things that do > not use GET are inaccessible to GET", is not informative. I understood > Paul's position, but I think it's a circular argument. It isn't so much an argument as a fact. Google's HTTP-based service was accessible to document() and XPointer and RDF assertions and the new one isn't. I really don't see the relevance of XSLT having access to POST. XSLT has access to HTTP GET because HTTP was designed to be a web protocol and so it defines a first class "get me the data" method. FTP wasn't designed for the Web but also has such a feature. Even SMB (through file: and smb:), IMAP (through imap:) and LDAP (through ldap:) could be used with XSLT because they have all been adapted to the needs of the Web: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes At least in theory if not in practice. SOAP has no equivalent, so the Google guys necessarily lost that feature when they moved from HTTP to SOAP. Paul Prescod
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