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Re: Relative URLs
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Relative URLs
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:57:36 -0400
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At 10:05 AM 9/19/01, Joerg wrote:
> >
> > Does relative path work in document() function?
> > Like <xsl:variable name="test" select="document('../test.xml')"/>
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>Yes, I think so. But it's relative to the stylesheet - and this is a
>frequently bug for using document().
But this can be controlled. The spec says [XSLT 12.1]:
The URI reference may be relative. The base URI (see 3.2 Base URI) of
the node in the second argument node-set that is first in document
order is used as the base URI for resolving the relative URI into an
absolute URI. If the second argument is omitted, then it defaults to
the node in the stylesheet that contains the expression that includes
the call the the document function....
To translate into English, if you say
document('../test.xml')
traversal is relative to the stylesheet (or more specifically, to the place
in the stylesheet where the document() call appears, which makes a
difference if your stylesheet is modular). But if you say
document('../test.xml', .)
traversal is (should be) relative to the Base URI (think: "file location")
of the context node, which is usually going to be in the source document.
Whether processors implement this particular feature correctly, is a
different question.
Cheers,
Wendell
>Joerg
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