I know this now, and I have corrected my build to use the correct URI
format.
Unfortunately, the situation is that transformation works if resolver.jar
is not on the classpath. I have an ANT build script that contains an
<xslt> task to transform an xml document. The stylesheet contains a
variable declaration that loads a document:
<xsl:variable name='sunxml' select='document($sundd)' />
The value of $sundd was an absolute windows filename "c:/bla.bla.xml"
The <xslt> task ran perfectly fine. I added an <xmlvalidate> task to the
build, and added resolver.jar to the classpath so I could use schema files
on the local file system. This broke the <xslt> task because of the
malformed URI.
So now we have a conflict. I have a transformation that works perfectly
fine without resolver.jar, but fails if I add resolver.jar. This to me is
a problem. If nothing else, the error message that was generated should
have indicated that the URI was malformed. I only got that error message
when I ran ANT witn -verbose so I could get the stack trace.
Software needs to be consistent. If the transformer had rejected the
filename, then I never would have expected resolver to handle it. However,
transformation does handle it, and then it breaks when you add
resolver.jar to the classpath, so I view this as a bug.
Perhaps the problem is that the xsl processor should have detected the
absolute file name in document($sundd) and fixed it before it handed it
off to the resolver.
In my case, I was able to fix the problem by stuffing the "/" in front of
the path. It would be a lot more user friendly if resolver or the xslt
processor did that for me.
Michael Giroux
Joseph Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/28/2004 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: resolver.jar does not handle Windows file names
The resolver is expecting a URI, and a Windows file name is not a URI.
Use <xsl:variable name='doc' value='document("file:///c:/..... ")/>
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
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