RE: Prepending remote url to tei image input

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Paul Adams [mailto:colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2008 2:53 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Prepending remote url to tei image input
> 
> >>>>> "Gavin" == Gavin  <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>     Gavin> The remote source tei is like this :-
> 
>     Gavin> <figure rend="somepic" url="/images/image.jpg"/>
> 
> 
>     Gavin> However, the image is remote to the document so the image
>     Gavin> will still not appear. I need to be able to detect and
>     Gavin> prepend the www.example.com address to the src, the
>     Gavin> prepending is easy, but how to capture the remote www
>     Gavin> address has got me.
> 
>     Gavin> Any clues?
> 
> Probably you want to resolve @url relative the the base URI of the
> figure element.
> 
> Are you using XSLT 2.0? If so, then this is easy, as there are
> built-in XPath functions to do it.

I checked, it seems we are using xalan 2.70 which is xslt 1.0 based. I did
try the baseuri method anyway, no luck.

Thanks

Gav...

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