Re: [xsl] Will an <xsl:result-document> with no href attribute override the current stylesheet?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2013-12-15 15:26 -0800, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>  Hi,
> The W3C XSLT 2.0 Specification says (about the href attribute of
> <xsl:result-document>):
>
> "The href attribute is optional. The default value is the zero-length
> string. The effective value of the attribute must be a URI Reference,
> which may be absolute or relative. There may be implementation-defined
> restrictions on the form of absolute URI that may be used, but the
> implementation is not required to enforce any restrictions. Any legal
> relative URI must be accepted. Note that the zero-length string is a
> legal relative URI."
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-result-document
>
>
> It isn't absolutely clear, but I am interpreting this to mean that no
> href attribute is equivalent to:
>
>   href="'"'
>
> The rules of resolving a relative literal-URI when applied in this
> case should produce the URI of the current stylesheet -- same as
> document('').

I disagree.  I understand (and I rely on it in my current project) 
that a relative URI is relative to the specified output URI.  I 
specify dozens of file names without paths and all of the files show 
up in the specified output directory.

> Will an <xsl:result-document> instruction with missing or empty href
> attribute overwrite the current stylesheet?

No.

If I invoked, say, Saxon with   -o:/Users/admin/t/out/myfile.html

Then the zero-length URI would have the URI:  /Users/admin/t/out/myfile.html

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . Ken


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