Ok thanks to you, I will try to fix this problem...
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: File paths (was: Complete newbie in Xalan using Xalan c++!!!)
>
> Hergert writes:
> >what is wrong if i tell Xalan as an Example instead of "foo.xml" using
> "d:\xyz\hdghei\foo.xml" in this example foo.xml is there yes I am sure
> ^^^
>
> I'll borrow the answer from the Xalan-Java FAQ:
> Q: Why do I get 'file not found' when I pass c:\path\filename.txt?
> A: Xalan often requires legal URLs as system identifiers, not local
> pathnames (this is partly due to underlying parsers requiring this).
> A simple (but not always correct!) way to change a local pathname into
> a URL in Java 1.1x is:
> public static String filenameToURL(String filename)
> {
> File f = new File(filename);
> String tmp = f.getAbsolutePath();
> if (File.separatorChar == '\\')
> {
> tmp = tmp.replace('\\', '/');
> }
> // Note: gives incorrect results when filename already begins with
> file:///
> return "file:///" + tmp;
> }
> For a slightly more detailed example, see org.apache.xml.utils.
> SystemIDResolver
>
> Learn more about the details of URL/URIs:
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1738.txt
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1808.txt
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt
>
> I hope you can fill in the other details.
> .................David Marston
>
>
