we do something similar but we use the WEB-INF directory as the starting
point and all works fine
lets say we are looking for "XML/extraction-map-classday.xml"
the following code achieves this ...
public final class HomePageAction extends Action
...
...
String xmlURI =
this.getServlet().getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/XML/extraction-m
ap-classday.xml");
Therefore the "RealPath" to extraction-map-classday.xml = the value in
xmlURI
if you had "stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl" under the WEB-INF directory maybe
you could follow or approach
i know it works for us but maybe we just got lucky !!!
HTH
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mazza, Glen R., ,CPMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: resolving relative paths to servet webapp/myapp directory
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing an XML->PDF XSLT transformation using a XSL stylesheet.
>
> Programmatically, within my Action class, I refer to the stylesheet needed
> by using a relative path, with the goal of it being relative to my appname
> directory off of the servlet "webapps" directory:
>
> TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
> Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new
> StreamSource("stylesheets\\mystylesheet.xsl"));
> ..
>
> Problem is, Struts appears to be resolving relative paths from my project
> working directory, *not* relative to the "appname" from the webapps
> directory in Tomcat.
>
> To confirm this, removing the xsl stylesheet from my working directory
> returned this error when I ran the app in Tomcat:
>
> java.io.FileNotFoundException:
> D:\myworkingdir\myapp\stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl
>
> and not this error:
>
> java.io.FileNotFoundException:
> D:\tomcat4.1\webapps\myapp\stylesheets\mystylesheet.xsl
>
> How do I specify filenames in Struts so they will be resolved relative to
> the webapps\myapp directory (whatever I name "myapp" to be), and not my
> (deleteable) working directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Glen
>
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