RE: [xsl] xsl:key and document()

[Robert Goheen <RobertG@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:key and document()

> I *would* like to see a way of retrieving the URL of the source
> document, mainly because it would make dynamic client-side XSLT a lot
> easier - you usually need to include the URL of the source document in
> the script that loads the next view on that document.

It does sound like an omission.  I was a bit surprised that you could slip
into a new document context without an easy way to refer back to the base
document; storing the base doc tree in a variable seems a bit hack-y and
inefficient.

> In XSLT 1.1, there's 'support for XML Base'. It would be nice to have
> a base-uri() function in XPath 1.1 (or perhaps in XSLT 1.1) that
> allowed you to access the base URI of a node. As a temporary work

Maybe we should start a petition? :)  Ok, I am half serious.  Is there a
proper way to make suggestions of this sort to the proper W3C working group?

> around, it might be worth adopting a convention of adding an xml:base
> attribute to the document element to give its URL.

That's not even really an option to me now (and, in my
far-less-than-expert-opinion, seems an ickier workaround than using a
variable for the base doc tree).  In my current project, docs may be
processed on the server (from a database/middle tier) and/or client, and all
URLs will contain a query string that impact the information in the docs.


> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
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> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/

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