Re: [xml-dev] external entities

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Elliotte Harold <>
To
Rick Marshall <>
Date
2005-02-10T11:22:22Z
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Re: [xml-dev] external entities
Rick Marshall wrote:

> leaving aside the fact that i've broken some coding rules for entities, 
> is it possible to write an external entity that calls a cgi script?
> 

Absolutely. The problem in your case appears to be that the entity which 
the CGI script returns is not in fact a well-formed XML document. 
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with GETting a CGI from an XML 
parse. It's just another resource. XML doesn't care how it's retrieved 
or served.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  
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