Re: xml:base URI ignored by document()

On 7/27/2010 2:44 AM, Andrew Welch wrote:
>> According to the XSLT 2.0 spec, "The second argument [to document()], if
>> present, is a node whose base URI is used to resolve any relative URI
>> references contained in the first argument."
>> So I construct a node whose base URI is set to the parameter $base-uri:
>>        <xsl:variable name="base-uri-node">
>>            <dummy xml:base="{$base-uri}" />
>>        </xsl:variable>
>>     
> :) I don't know if that would work or not, but its an interesting way
> of approaching it...
>
> I think you really want the resolve-uri() function:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-resolve-uri
>
> cheers
> andrew
>   

Thanks, Andrew and Michael. That is what I was looking for.

I was hoping to avoid one more XSLT 2.0 dependency, but I'm probably
committed to 2.0 anyway.

In any case, using resolve-uri() met the need. Thanks again!

Lars

Lars