• To: "'Fraser Goffin'" <goffinf@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XSLT document()
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:46:31 +0100
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> 
> I see that in XSLT I can use the document() function BUT it 
> APPEARS that it 
> must retrieve the XML from the file system or a resolvable URI ??
> 

XSLT questions are better asked on the xsl-list at mulberrytech.com.

You need to supply a resolvable URI but it's implementation-defined how it's
resolved, and it doesn't need to be resolved to a file in a file system.
Java-based processors, for example, typically implement the JAXP interface
which allows you to supply your own URI resolver, which can resolve a URI to
any Source object recognized by the XSLT processor in question, for example
a DOM or a SAX stream. It can also, of course, be a URI that requests data
from a servlet or CGI script.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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