RE: supporting web services from XSLT 2.0

I'll add this to the XSLT 2.0 issues list, which means it will come up on
the WG agenda and we can then make a decision whether this requirement is in
scope for XSLT 2.0.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Norton [mailto:francis@redrice.com]
> Sent: 09 February 2002 16:00
> To: xsl-editors@w3.org
> Subject: supporting web services from XSLT 2.0
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to include the result of Web Service 
> Query in my 
> transforms.
> 
> Any service that can be accessed by an HTTP GET, or a simple URL in 
> general, can be accessed using the current document() 
> function. But SOAP 
> requires an XML query block, and that cannot be done with the current 
> functionality.
> 
> A SOAP message may require a "SOAPAction" header, but apart from that 
> the main requirement for a bare-ones SOAP enabling function 
> would be to 
> pass a single XML block containing a SOAP envelope element.
> 
> Francis Norton.
>