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Subject: Re: [xsl] inline call to external process From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:22:39 -0500 |
[Eric Smith] > Is it possible to invoke an external process from within xml, > like a script (shell, perl, whatever) that returns xml markup? > This returned code is then parsed by the xslt processor inplace > just like the static code. > > -- With standard xslt1.0, the only way would be if you could access the process through a url. Then you could get the results using document(). But it's not usually a good idea to let a cgi process run an arbitrary shell script...and you couldn't do that on the fly in the middle of processing. You could probably do this through various processor-specific extensions. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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