RE: [xsl] problem with document(concat

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When the argument to document() is a node, then the string value of a node
is taken as a relative URI and is resolved against the base URI of that node
(that is, it's relative to the source document). When the argument is a
string, then the string is taken as a relative URI and is resolved relative
to the stylesheet.

There's a very rarely used feature of the document() function that helps you
here: you can supply a second argument which is the node whose base URI is
used for resolution. So try:

document(concat(., '.xml'), .)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfhart Totschnig [mailto:a9507073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 May 2005 15:19
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] problem with document(concat
> 
> Hi,
> I am having a problem related to the document() function and would be 
> thankful if anyone could help me.
> 
> The xslt script I am working on serves to transform an xml 
> file to html. 
> The original xml file reads
> 
> ...
> <related>314</related>
> ....
> 
> which is to indicate that the current file is related to file 
> "314.xml" 
> in the same directory. What I would like to do is integrate 
> the title of 
> the referenced file into the output html. I tried the following:
> 
> ...
> <xsl:for-each select="related">
>     <xsl:value-of 
> select="document(concat(.,'.xml'))//rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/dc
> :title"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> ...
> 
> Yet it doesn't work. When changing  the content of the xml file from 
> "314" to "314.xml" and doing
> <xsl:value-of select="document(.)//rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/dc:title"/>
> it works.
> Furthermore, concat(.,'.xml') produces the correct string when put 
> elsewhere, when put inside document(), however, it doesn't work.
> 
> Could anyone tell me why what I originally had in mind 
> doesn't work? I 
> tried to integrate the string() function in any way I could think of, 
> use variables, nothing helped.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Wolfhart