Hi,
I have written some XSLT which tries to access a second XML document with the following code:

<xsl:for-each select="document('Stylesheet.xml')/Page/Stylename[starts-with(@name, $style)]/style">

This always seems to check the local disk (C:) for the file not as a relative http URL file. How can i specify that stylesheet.xml is in the same web folder as the page that called it?

For example, when i test this code using RAD instead of looking in http://localhost:9080/test/Stylesheet.xml it looks in C:/program files/..../...../....

Does this make any sense to anyone? Or am i just being stupid?

Matt

When the argument to document() is specified as a string literal, the relative URI should be taken as being relative to the stylesheet. If you want it to be relative to the source document, you can achieve this using the second argument of the function.

This only works if the base URI of the stylesheet/source document are known. This depends on using the API to invoke the processor correctly (you don't say which processor you're using or how you invoked it). For example, many JAXP users make the mistake of supplying a StreamSource as the input without calling setSystemId() so that the XSLT processor knows the base URI.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference