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Re: [xsl] Please Confirm that xsl:document instruction cannot have a document URI

2013-08-28 12:02:21
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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