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RE: Opening a document on a server

2005-06-15 17:18:11
Given a file on a server, thus:

//someServer/someDirectory/someFile.xml

The following function call opens it:

document('file:////someServer/someDirectory/someFile.xml')


Thanks. I thought that was supposed to work, but last time I tried, I
failed.

The format //someServer/someDirectory/someFile.xml is a Windows UNC
filename: a remote file in the sense that it belongs to the filestore of a
machine other than the client. The RFCs are pretty unhelpful about how this
case should be represented using a URI in the "file" scheme, but the
"file:////" prefix seems to be emerging as the accepted answer. It's
probably best treated as implementation-dependent, though.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



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