• To: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: What does SOAP really add?
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:55:38 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <00f501c1eace$18609570$6401a8c0@didierhome>

> From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@n...]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:52 PM
> To: Julian Reschke; Bill de hÓra; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  What does SOAP really add?
>
>
> Hello Julian,
>
> Julian said:
> > > Why is XSLT so tied to GET?
> >
> > It's not tied to GET itself, it's tied to a generic retrieval of a
> resource
> > identified by a URI, which *happens* to be GET for HTTP.
> >
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#document>:
> >
>
> Didier replies:
> Concretely speaking when you are using XSLT for real life usage
> it is. What

Well, there are other URI schemes than HTTP. For instance, FILE.

> are you proposing to resolve the issue of not being able to access a
> document through an HTTP POST?  Modify/amend the URL RFC? something else?

Didier,

I personally don't think it's an issue at all. As others pointed out, POST
may have side effects, so I'm not convinced that it is a good idea to do it
from XSLT.

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