Re: [xsl] Paths and apos in xsltproc

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

/@link selects an attribute of a document node. Document nodes don't 
have attributes, so I can't see why you would expect this expression to 
return anything.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 04/08/2010 04:23, Nicholas Orr wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> I've found an issue in my testing for the command line xsltproc on mac os when the path contains apostrophes.  I'm using the following version (from xsltproc -V) :
>
> Using libxml 20703, libxslt 10124 and libexslt 813
> xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20703, libxslt 10124 and libexslt 813
> libxslt 10124 was compiled against libxml 20703
> libexslt 813 was compiled against libxml 20703
>
> And when I run my command as :
>
> xsltproc -v /path/nick\'s/stylesheet.xsl /path/nick\'s/input.xml
>
> I get an error :
>
> xsltForEach: select document(/@link)
> warning: failed to load external entity "TPO.xml"
>
> The @link attribute is just a filename, no path, and I get the same error when using  :
>
> <xsl:for-each select="document(/@link,/)">
> or
> <xsl:for-each select="document(/@link)">
>
> The command line is actually just testing ground for an implementation of Libxslt and libxml2, but I get the same error in both xsltproc and our implementation.  I'm not sure if it's related but I also have the same or a similar problem with windows unc paths, but that may be another email...
>
> Thanks,
> Nick