RE: Why xsl:include seems to try to find files in /Orion folder a nd n ot web-app root?

[Victor A. Salaman]

Title: RE: Why xsl:include seems to try to find files in /Orion folder a nd n ot web-app root?

Saxon 6.2

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo B. de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:54 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Cc: Duffey, Kevin
Subject: RE: Why xsl:include seems to try to find files in /Orion folder a nd n ot web-app root?

And out of curiosity, which XSLT processor are u using then?

Rodrigo

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor A. Salaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:47 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Cc: Duffey, Kevin
Subject: RE: Why xsl:include seems to try to find files in /Orion folder
a nd n ot web-app root?

Orion should just replace Xalan for Saxon anyways... and use TraX instead of
a propietary interface to Xalan... Xalan is Apache's excuse for having a
XSLT processors, besides being one of the slowest in the crowd...

-- Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Endres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 1:07 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Cc: Duffey, Kevin
Subject: Re: Why xsl:include seems to try to find files in /Orion folder
and n ot web-app root?

If you read the xalan source, you will see that this is a problem with
xalan.
The method that determines the location of the included file is written to
be
file-system and URL based. If has no concept of calling a method like
"getRealPath()" to get a path relative to your webapp. The code is a mess.

The xalan folks should rewrite this complicated code to simply call an
interface that the programmer provides. Then your interface would be called
to locate a file, allowing you to apply the getRealPath() method that you
really want it to use. I am not sure if Xalan II addresses this or not.

The only way Orion could fix this is to patch the xalan code, which I think
would be a very bad idea.

The way that we solved the problem was to pre-compile the xsl pages in place
in our development tree, which presented XSL with a simple file-system to
locate included files. We then load the compiled pages for XSLT processing.
This also speeded up processing times.

tim.

> Hi,
>
> When I use the <xsl:include..> directive, it appears to look in server
root
> dir, and not the web-app root its deployed in. I am not quite sure if this
> is something to do with Orion, or if all servers operate in this manner
and
> therefore its an error of the XSLT technology. Or..perhaps its an error of
> the saxon library I am working with. Just wondering if anyone working with
> Orion and XSL have seen this problem or not?
>
> Thanks.
>