RE: Windows Batchfile calling Saxon - Confusion of / a

> From: Kerry, Richard [mailto:richard.kerry@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 October, 2007 09:27
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Windows Batchfile calling Saxon - Confusion of / and \
>
> If I pass the secondary file as 'C:/Projects/Secondary.xml'
> it's happy.
> If I pass the secondary file as 'C:\Projects\Secondary.xml'
> it isn't, saying "FODC0005: Exception thrown by URIResolver.
> Invalid relative URI".
>
> I don't want to hard-code the current path in my batch file,
> I want to say "set DIR=%cd%", but if I do that DIR has '\' in
> it in the usual Windows manner, causing the read to fail, as above.
>
> So :
> 1.  Can I get Saxon to accept '\' instead of '/' ?  I presume
> not as its a URI not a directory name.
> 2.  Can I get Windows batch-files to convert '\' to '/' ?

set file1="C:\Projects\Secondary.xml"
set file2=%file1:\=/%

echo %file1%
echo %file2%

> 3.  Can I get Saxon's document() function to search relative
> to the current working directory rather than the top of the disk ?