On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:30:52PM +0100, Francis Norton wrote:
>  True, sorry not to have addressed it.

No problem.

>  I think that your idiom doesn't actually change *my* argument much - for 
>  instance, if I want to fetch the results of a SOAP query into XSLT, we 
>  still need support for POST in XSLT.

Well, that's the whole point of this discussion.  POST should not be
used to "fetch results", because we already have a method that does
that; GET.  If you have more than one method that means "fetch stuff",
then you've now got multiple independant information spaces, not a
single one.  WebDAV made this mistake with PROPFIND, as Dan Connolly
described here;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Feb/0091.html

>  Unless I an extension function to 
>  POST the query, and return the URL to be fetched via document()... which 
>  breaks XSLT's "no guaranteed order of evaluation" feature...
>  
>  Hmmm. Doesn't really make my heart sing, but food for thought. Thanks.

Yup, for good reason.

Later.

MB
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