Re: Base URL for input to the document() function

[Jens Lautenbacher <jtl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Katie Stafford <katstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am attempting to use XSLT's document() function to include the textual
> content of an external file in the HTML output of an XSL file.  The
> problem is that if I use a call like: 
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="document('test')"/>
> 
> , the resulting HTML attempts to include the document '<xmlns path>/test',
> where <xmlns path> is the path specified in the following line, which
> appears at the start of the document: <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>.  I can't figure out how
> to make it look at a different base URL, and I don't understand why it is
> using this one!

Why dont' you simply use document('../../some/path/test') ? 

Where ../../some/path is the path to test relative from the location of your xsl file?

Absolute paths like document('/some/absolute/path/test') work, too, at
least with xalan (and I'm pretty sure with saxon and xt, too)

        jtl


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