Re: [xml] Using HTTP POST from XSLT to access webservices

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:12, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I'm thinking about developing xslt extension element to allow HTTP
> posting from XSLT, which 
> can be especially useful for web services. Does nanohttp in libxslt
> support HTTP POST?

Have a look at xmlIO.c for some POST support in libxml (I found this
using "grep" initially; surely you could have done the same?). There are
some comments about where it is used there.

> Has anyone worked on something like that? Are there any proposals for
> dealing with HTTP POSTs from
> XSLT (may be in exslt)?

Why is this better than a pipeline that sends the output of an XSLT run
to something like curl that does the post and retrieves the result and
then pipe that to another XSLT process?

Malcolm