Re: [xsl] Please Confirm that xsl:document instruction cannot have a document URI

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/08/2013 17:17, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I tried to find an answer to this question but neither Google nor MarkMail
> revealed a definitive answer.
>
> I have code that constructs a document using <xsl:document> and then passes
> it to a 3rd-party function library that expects the input document to have a
> URI so that it can then resolve relative URI references.
>
> Based on my reading of the XSLT 2 spec and what I could find in my searches,
> it appears that there is no standard way to define a document URI for
> documents created using <xsl:document>.
>
> This seems like a bit of an oversight in the spec, so I wanted to get
> confirmation that my analysis is correct, that I cannot use <xsl:document>
> alone as input to functions that expect to get a non-null document-uri()
> value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot


The spec says

> The base URI of the new document node is taken from the base URI of the xsl:document instruction.


so you should be able to go

<xsl:document xml:base="www.example.com">.....

David


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