Re: [xsl] Behavior of document() Function with Empty String

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Whatever, I agree with your conclusion that you cannot rely on
> document ('') working.
>   

Though I don't fully understand what the phrase "no base uri" may mean 
here in this discussion, I think it's in place here to state that 
document('') never works once you offset the base uri by using xml:base 
in the xsl:stylesheet element, or in any direct ancestor to the element 
containing the document('') instruction.

In a particular project of us, all stylesheets from a stylesheet library 
are located in a certain directory structure, deeper nested than the 
input/output sources location. To get easy access to the paths of 
input/output and for all stylesheets to "see" the same directory 
structure, all those stylesheets have an xml:base instruction of 
"../..". This has the (uncanny) side benefit of effectively disabling 
the call to document('').

Once you use document(''), be sure you do not have an ancestor parent 
element containing an xml:base element.

Cheers,
Abel Braaksma