DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Imagedata/entityref and full pathname problem

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Jens Emmerich <Jens.Emmerich@encorus.com> was heard to say:
| Does anybody know *why* the XSL standard mandates the resolution of
| relative URLs?

Because relative URIs in entity declarations are relative to the base
URI of the document in which the declaration occurs. The parser is
really the only component of the system that can correctly do that
resolution.

| Does that mean that transformed documents can only be
| used in-place?

No, but it does mean that if you use entityref, you may have to be
prepared to mangle the names a bit in your stylesheet.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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