Re: [xsl] Prepending remote url to tei image input

Subject: Re: [xsl] Prepending remote url to tei image input
From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:52:39 +0100
>>>>> "Gavin" == Gavin  <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Gavin> The remote source tei is like this :-

    Gavin> <figure rend="somepic" url="/images/image.jpg"/>


    Gavin> However, the image is remote to the document so the image
    Gavin> will still not appear. I need to be able to detect and
    Gavin> prepend the www.example.com address to the src, the
    Gavin> prepending is easy, but how to capture the remote www
    Gavin> address has got me.

    Gavin> Any clues?

Probably you want to resolve @url relative the the base URI of the
figure element. 

Are you using XSLT 2.0? If so, then this is easy, as there are
built-in XPath functions to do it.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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