Re: document-uri gives empty sequence

> I suspect that the base-uri() function might be good enough for your needs.
Yes, its working now, thank you.

Only problem is, I'm totally confused now when to use base-uri and in what
cases document-uri is the better choice. Also your example on p.333 seems
to indicate a preference for document-uri in connection with the usage of the
collection() function.

Regards, Manfred

On 07/11/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've troubles to get document-uri function working in Saxon 8.6,
> > even though I had it working in Saxon 8.5.1.
>
> The implementation of document-uri() in 8.5.1 wasn't conformant, in that it
> didn't guarantee that
>
> doc(document-uri($x)) is $x
>
> would always be true. The spec says that for documents where no such URI is
> known, you should return an empty sequence, so that's what Saxon now does.
I
> agree it would be more helpful to try an assign a document URI that
> satisfies the above condition. In the meantime, though, I suspect that the
> base-uri() function might be good enough for your needs.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/