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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:38:50PM -0500, Mikhail S Grushinskiy wrote:
> OK, I 've found that exslt:document element uses HTTP PUT for HTTP URLs

  yes, that's the METHOD originally designed to save a document.

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <greeting xml:lang="en">hello world</greeting>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <greeting xml:lang="en">hello world</greeting>
>
> BTW: this is a BUG (It repeats message twice!).

  Strange

> I wonder could exslt:document be enhanced to perform HTTP POST,

/**
 * xmlRegisterHTTPPostCallbacks:
 *
 * By default, libxml submits HTTP output requests using the "PUT" method.
 * Calling this method changes the HTTP output method to use the "POST"
 * method instead.
 *
 */
void
xmlRegisterHTTPPostCallbacks( void ) {

> and return
> results?

  That would require a complete change to exslt:document....

> What are your opinions on ways to deal with a response? Put it into XSLT
> variable or parse
> it with XSLT under some element which would be a child of exsl:document?

  None, it's not possible so ...

Daniel

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