In Importing.xsl when I use xsl:include or import and specify href to "Imported.xsl" tomcat is not able to find the stylesheet. It tries to look up the Imported.xsl under tomcat_home/bin.

Does anyone know how to get around this in making tomcat find the stylesheets. All stylesheets are places under one XSL directory, which is placed under webapps/mywebapp/WEB-INF/xsl.
I don't want to make the xsl public and accessible over internet.

suggestions?solutions?

The most likely explanation is that the XSLT processor doesn't know the base URI of the stylesheet. Usually this happens when you load the stylesheet from some source such as a DOM or an inputstream where the original location is unknown. Calling setSystemId() on the supplied Source object fixes it.

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

I am getting an absolute path of XSL directory as a web-app context parameter. And using that alongwith xsl file name I stream the xsl file before the transformation.
I will try the suggestion you made though. Thanks!