Re: Requirement: read a binary file using an HTTP URI from Christian Grün on 2015-05-05 (public-expath@w3.org from May 2015)

From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 10:18:44 +0200
To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Cc: EXPath CG <public-expath@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAP94bnNM0ZCVgcfyev0jXtMbN+Zx_f1Pui=YUz3AbDMxO+0zag@mail.gmail.com>

As a fact, none of the functions of the File Module provides support
for HTTP URIs. But if it's not too late, fn:unparsed-binary could be
added to the XQFO 3.1 spec? Maybe this would also be your intention?

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> There seems to be an omission in the FILE module: file:readBinary() will
> only read a file from filestore. We don’t seem to have any way to read a
> binary file from an HTTP URI.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
> mike@saxonica.com
> +44 (0) 118 946 5893

Received on Tuesday, 5 May 2015 08:19:31 UTC