Re: Windows file path to uri (iri?) using xpath functi

>   This works only for absolute file names, isn't it?

yes so perhaps

replace(
if (matches($filepath, '^[a-zA-Z]:'))
 then
concat('file:///',translate($filepath,'\','/'))
else
translate($filepath,'\','/')
, '#','%23')


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