It's up to the XSLT processor to decide what kind of URIs it's prepared
to handle. I think that many XSLT processors won't touch fragment
identifiers. Saxon does have some limited support for fragment
identifiers, but it's a but fragile. It's better to strip them off, load
the document without them, and then find the node you are looking for.
Incidentally, document('#id2') is referring to a node in the stylesheet
while document(@xlink:href) is referring to a node in the source
document. The choice of base URI depends on whether the argument is a
node or a string.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Adam van den Hoven
Sent: 08 October 2002 21:50
To: XSL Mailing list
Subject: [xsl] Using document()
Sorry if this appears twice, I'm having some problems with my
mail systems.
I have a question.
I want to use the following:
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('#id2')" />
Ok, I'd never actually use this. In reality its something like:
<xsl:apply-templates select="document(@xlink:href)" />
which is likely to contain simply fragment identifiers since
I'm using XLinks to normalize a sitemap hierarchy.
When I try to run this as part of a transform, I get an error
saying that the file (fully resolved to refer to the source
doc) cannot be found. Is this a problem with how I'm doing
things or perhaps a problem with app I'm using to develop
templates with (Stylus Studio)?
Do you have any other ideas about how I can accomplish the
same thing given that some of my xlink:href attributes will
point to external documents?
Thanks,
H. Adam van den Hoven
Web Developer
Credit Union Central of BC
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