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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:44:30AM -0400, Robert Koberg wrote: > Michael Kay wrote: >> Saxon already has an extension, saxon:discard-document(), designed to >> achieve that. > > I did not know that and it is good to know. I disable extensions (and > don't really investigate them) as I run some untrusted XSLs in my CMS > webapp. Watch that an XSLT transform can read (or try to read) any file on your system and can open arbitrary http (and often ftp) connections on arbitrary ports. > Any chance of this type of thing getting into the spec? If the document falls out of scope then both XSLT 1 and 2 allow an implementation to discard it. I don't think we'll see a procedural way to discard a document otherwise, except as part of something like the XQuery update facility perhaps. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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