Re: Please Confirm that xsl:document instruction canno

There's a difference between document-uri and base-uri. document-uri is a URI
that can be used to fetch the document using the doc() function. base-uri is a
URI that can be used to resolve relative URIs contained in the document. You
talk about document-uri, but I think you mean base-uri.

As David points out, you can control the base URI of the constructed document
using an xml:base attribute in the stylesheet.

You can't set a document URI (it's a temporary tree with no means of external
identification. That means that the garbage collector knows when it can kill
it. This wouldn't be the case if it had a document URI. If you want to create
a document with a document URI, use xsl:result-document - except you can't
then access it during the same transformation.)

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 28 Aug 2013, at 17:17, Eliot Kimber wrote:

> I tried to find an answer to this question but neither Google nor MarkMail
> revealed a definitive answer.
>
> I have code that constructs a document using <xsl:document> and then passes
> it to a 3rd-party function library that expects the input document to have
a
> URI so that it can then resolve relative URI references.
>
> Based on my reading of the XSLT 2 spec and what I could find in my
searches,
> it appears that there is no standard way to define a document URI for
> documents created using <xsl:document>.
>
> This seems like a bit of an oversight in the spec, so I wanted to get
> confirmation that my analysis is correct, that I cannot use <xsl:document>
> alone as input to functions that expect to get a non-null document-uri()
> value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot
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