I've just clicked on that link and it took rather more than 20 seconds to
respond. I should think the message means exactly what it says.

It's possible to change the timeout by setting Java system properties: see

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/properties.html

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Sahle [mailto:sahle@u...] 
> Sent: 02 July 2009 21:35
> To: xsl-list@l...
> Subject: [xsl] document() results in timeout
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> trying to harvest information from wikipedia with document() 
> I get the error message
> 
> (Oxygen9 + Saxon-B 9.0.0.6)
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: The host did not 
> accept the connection within timeout of 20000 ms 
> (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers)
> URL: 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050211/#ERRFODC0005
> [which says: "err:FODC0005, invalid argument to fn:doc"]
> 
> Where does this problem comes from? XSLT-proc? My System? The 
> Wikipedia-Server?
> 
> Is there anything I can do about this?
> 
> Hope this is not off-topic, Patrick
> 
> 
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> Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, 
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