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Re: Web Front Page using XSLT
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- Subject: Re: Web Front Page using XSLT
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 18:51:27 +0100 (BST)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005161821330.23660-100000@ted.sergeant.org>
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> None of the 3 presented solutions give an automated method of pulling in
> the 3 most recent items,
document('http:///cgi-bin/myscript?number=3')
> So I'm guessing the answer is simply: XSLT can't do this.
Input to XSLT has to be at least a virtual XML file (eg if its not XML,
it is in some format with a sax parser). So you need _some_ way
of telling an xslt system in XML syntax what are the three most recent
items, but there are loads of ways of doing that.
David
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