Re: [xml-dev] Malicious documents? (WAS: Interesting mailing list & a rare broadside)

"Michael Kay" <> writes:

> I see that David's talk mentions the dangers of referring to external
> XSLT stylesheets. Until recently the W3C site provided a servlet which
> would run an XSLT transformation using a user-specified source document
> and stylesheet. By calling external Java methods from the stylesheet,
> you had total access to files on the web server.
> 
> Although W3C have patched their servlet to disallow Java method calls, I
> suspect many others are still doing this.

Just out of interest: How will it handle an XPath including
``document('file:///some/secret/file.xml')''?