Re: [xsl] accessing info outside current context

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>]

[Chris Bayes]

> > > Jeni said
> > > > The document() function always takes a URL, it's just
> > that sometimes
> > > > URLs look like directory paths. So doing:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > document('http://hbcora59/psr/Viewer?_but=Connect&db=dwbspt11&;
> > > >
> > nlsl=en-us&in=dwb&_in=dwb&lc=false&us=rpekarek&fm=xml&ac=rpekarek')
> > > >
> > > > will work just fine.
> > >
> > > No it won't.
> >
> > It will.
> >
> No it won't.
>
> > Of course the XSLT engine must actually work (:-), and if the
> > statement appears in an XML document, the ampersands will
> > need to be escaped properly.
>
> Well it looks like an xslt fragment to me and as xslt is xml it won't
> work just fine without escaping the &s
>

Yes it will! No it won't! Good grief.  I just tried it out and you DO have
to escape the ampersand just as you would expect (with msxml3 and Saxon;  XT
couldn't find the url I pointed at, and Sablotron 0.7 said that http is an
unsupported protocol).

Cheers,

Tom P


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