RE: XSLT - base URL for relative file paths - from Sty

> When using different XSLT processors there seems to be at 
> least two different conventions being used for WHICH of the 
> stylesheet or the document (or maybe even the calling 
> location?) determines the base URL for relative files paths.
> 
> Is this specified unambiguously in the W3C standard (I 
> thought it was) or is it unspecified / open to different 
> interpretations by different XSLT implementers?

It is clearly defined in the spec. If the first argument of the
document() function is a string, the base URI is taken from the
stylesheet; if it is a node, then it is taken from the base URI of that
node.

Michael Kay


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