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RE: inline call to external process
- From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter dot Hunsberger at stjude dot org>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:39:03 -0600
- Subject: RE: [xsl] inline call to external process
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> 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.
Eric,
I suspect you just want to look at XSL extensions. What you have available
depends on what processor you're using, but check out the Saxon and Xalan-J
documentation on extensions. In particular, if calling Java is acceptable?
Note that you have to explicitly convert the returned results to a nodeset
using the nodeset() extension... (Note that there are language extensions
and then there user extensions.)
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