Re: xml:base URI ignored by document()

On 7/27/2010 10:45 AM, Wendell Piez wrote:
>
> In XSLT 1.0 you'd probably simply have:
>
> <xsl:variable name="base" select="document($base-uri)"/>
>

Ah...

> and then document($relative-uri,$base).
>
> Of course this only works if an XML document is already there at
> $base-uri.
>

Yes, I was planning for $base to be a folder; but I could use a file
instead.

It would seem like a waste to have to read and parse the $base document
when I don't need it. But maybe the XSLT processor is smart enough not
to do that...

Lars