Re: [xsl] Problem with transforming using Xalan: "Had IO Exception with stylesheet file"

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chaudhary, Harsh wrote:
> Had IO Exception with stylesheet file: Could not find file
> math.max.template.xsl
>
> Anyone have any views on that?
>
> Another thing, if I use the full path to the file like so: 
>
> <xsl:import
> href="C:\harsh\ws\wsad\JavaSource\com\amfam\rate\xml\math.max.template.x
> sl" />

Actually, this is not a URI, so practically this last method should've 
thrown an error too. That it does work, is pure luck and non-conformance 
of Xalan (and won't be portable with other processors). Instead, try to 
restrict yourself to a URI form like: 
href="file:///c:/harsh/ws/etc/etc/etc/xml/math.max.template.xsl"

If you load the stylesheet from disk or from memory, the original 
stylesheet may loose the base href it is originally loaded from. This is 
the system id that George is referring to. All xsl:import, xsl:include 
and document(...) references are resolved relative to this base system 
id. If you use Java, you are probably able to set this system id 
programmatically. Otherwise, you can try to start your program from a 
certain location and make all the paths relative to this (i.e., load 
your Java from the bin directory and your sources from 
"../../resources/xslt" will work if that is the relative path of your 
xslt sources from your bin directory.

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma