xml-dev - Re: Didier's lab report

[mark hu <mark@fintrack.com>]

Yes, it is and then we can use SOAP header to put this base URI in, right ?

mark hu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
To: <martind@netfolder.com>; Arnold, Curt <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>;
<xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: RE: Didier's lab report


> It's entirely feasible for an XSLT processor to recognize at compile time
> any calls of document() that can be resolved statically, and to generate
> code in the compiled stylesheet that causes the download of these
documents
> to start asynchronously as soon as stylesheet execution starts. This isn't
> true in the example cited, because the absolute URI of the required
document
> depends on the base URI of the current node in the source document.
>
> Mike Kay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Didier PH Martin [SMTP:martind@netfolder.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10:42 PM
> > To: Arnold, Curt; xml-dev@xml.org
> > Subject: RE: Didier's lab report
> >
> > Hi Curt,
> >
> > Curt said:
> > It should be possible for an XSLT implementation to use asynchronous
> > retrieval of document() using variables.
> >
> > Say, if you had something like this
> >
> > <xsl:transform ....>
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="doc1" select="document('doc1.xml',.)"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="doc2" select="document('doc2.xml',.)"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="doc3" select="document('doc3.xml',.)"/>
> >
> >
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > ...
> > </xsl:transform>
> >
> > The declaration of the variable could start the download/parsing process
> > but
> > not block further execution.  Only when the variable was used in an
> > expression
> > would the template evaluation thread need to block.
> >
> > I do not know if any of the existing processors implement this type of
> > behavior,
> > however it would not seem to require any changes to XSLT to approach the
> > performance that you estimated for XInclude.
> >
> > Didier replies:
> > If I understand you well, this would imply first that we are allowed to
> > use
> > as a variable an external document tree. Then, if the XSLT processor
> > recognizes that the select is a document() function, that the XSLT
> > processor
> > starts a thread to set the variable to a tree (will take as much time as
> > the
> > external server will take to return the resulting document). After
having
> > started a thread, the XSLT engine would go to the next variable
> > assignment.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Didier PH Martin
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Email: martind@netfolder.com
> > Conferences: xml devconf 2000 (http://www.xmldevconf2000.com)
> > Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com)
> > column: Style Matters (http://www.xml.com)
> > Products: http://www.netfolder.com
>