I poked XSL with a stick once upon a time, and found it to be extremely clunky. Hence, I didn't poke around very long. What you need to understand about XSL is that it's intended to define a way of transforming a valid XML document into another type of document. If you wanted to write something in XML and publish it both on the web and as plain text to a list serv, say, this would in theory be a good way of doing it.
In practice, it's not all that great. 'CreateNDTicket' isn't a function, it's an element (like anything else in XML), which describes how to transform another element. XSL still relies on a processor to parse the XML file into the document type described in the XSL file, though, so you don't "run" an XML Style sheet per se.
In all honesty, this was right about the same time I started picking up Perl; I want to put this in perspective. For me to learn the XSL markup to create the transformation I was looking for took me a couple weeks and a book. I was able to write a simple XML parser based on what I had gleaned from Learning Perl in a couple afternoons that did the transformation I needed just as well.
YMMV though, as I said, I only messed with this once because I didn't like it, and that was about 6 or 7 years ago, so maybe I'm remembering wrong.
In reply to Re: XML xds To RPC::XML::Client call
by starX
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