[xquery-talk] saxon expath http-client not recognized?

[Michael Kay]

I would suggest tackling this a different way. Make the request using the doc() function, and write a Java URIResolver to service the request, using the Java HTTP API if you need full control over the request and response handling.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 17 Oct 2023, at 23:11, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
> 
> Saxon (out of the box) has no support for the EXPath HTTP client module. There's a third party implementation, but I have no idea of its current status, or of its dependencies.
> 
> The error suggests either that the library doesn't work, or that you haven't installed it (correctly or at all), or that it doesn't work with this version of Saxon.
> 
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
> 
>> On 17 Oct 2023, at 22:58, Paul Kelly <paul at polvo.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, first time posting (or maybe last time was like 10 years ago). I’m trying to make a simple get request with the expath http-client but keep getting the following error:
>> 
>> Using Saxon (from command line and all three versions in oXygen):
>> 
>> xquery version "1.0";
>> declare namespace http = "http://expath.org/ns/http-client";
>> let $path := "/file.xml"
>> let $host := "http://polvo.ca"
>> let $url := concat($host,$path)
>> let $request := <http:request href="{$url}" method="get" />
>> return
>> http:send-request($request)
>> 
>> Static error on line 11 column 20 of apa-test.xq:
>> XPST0017 Cannot find a 1-argument function named Q{http://expath.org/ns/http-client}send-request()
>> Static error(s) in query
>> 
>> 
>> Hope I’m just just being dumb and the answer is obvious…
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Paul
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