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

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> Isn't it because the stylesheet doesn't actually live at the location
> that xml:base is referring to, therefore no XML file is returned?  So
> it's not that uncanny, just that there's nothing to return.

Indeed. As a matter of fact (afaik): once you use xml:base (pointing to 
something else than your current stylesheet) you have no way of 
referring to your current stylesheet. Which also means that pointing to 
a directory/path where the stylesheet resides does not work: 
document("") will then try to retrieve the path, not the stylesheet in 
that path (it has no way to know it).

This will still work (for document('')), provided the url resolves to a 
real XML doc:
xml:base="./mystylesheet.xslt"

This won't, as document('') tries to load the path, which does not 
resolve to a file containing any xml:
xml:base="./"

-- Abel