Re: [xsl] Uri resolver in Saxon 8

[Barry Lay <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I will keep that in mind.  The various implementations of Source 
don't seem to set it automatically so I never knew what it was for.

Also, the XSLT 2.0 spec states that "..the way in which the URI 
reference is used to locate a stylesheet module is 
implementation-defined." (section 3.10.1).  I presume this means that 
setting the systemId on the Source object may work for Saxon but is not 
guaranteed to work in general.

Barry

Michael Kay wrote:

> > I tend to use a URIResolver for this sort of thing.  The 
> > javax.xml.transform.Source interface does not define a mechanism for 
> > determining the source file location (there may not even be 
> > one) so the 
> > XSL transform has no way of knowing where the XSL file came 
> > from, thus 
> > can't find things relative to it.
> >    
>
> On the contrary: Source has a method setSystemId(). Whether or not this is
> actually the location of the stylesheet, the value you supply is treated as
> the base URI of the stylesheet, and is used to resolve relative URIs within
> it.
>
> Michael Kay