RE: EntityResolver not allowed to do enough

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Rob,

Thanks for the pointer!

Dave



                                                                                       
                                                
                      "Robert Koberg"                                                  
                                                
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                      10/22/2002 04:40         Subject: RE: EntityResolver not allowed 
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Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Quinlan [mailto:brian@;sweetapp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: EntityResolver not allowed to do enough
>
>
> > According to the XSLT recommendation, when you call the document()
> > function with a single string argument, any relative URIs are
> > resolved using the base URI of the stylesheet.
>
> I am not speaking of the XSLT language, but of the Xalan implementation.
> Namely, where base munging should be done when constructing a full URI.
>
> If the current document is <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#document> and
> <foo.xml> is requested, should our URIResolver be passed, by Xalan,
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#document> as a base or
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt>?
>
> In the first case, the URIResolver is tasked with the responsibility of
> finding the base path of the URI.
>
> In the second, Xalan does the work.

I think your issue is addressed in this post:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200210/msg00483.html

I don't think it is what you want to hear, though.

-Rob