Re[2]: DOCBOOK-APPS: Can 'base.dir" be relative?

[John.Himpel@edwardjones.com]

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:16:35AM -0600, John.Himpel@edwardjones.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working on a large set of documents that the user will need to be able to create from 
their 
> > local copy of a CVS repository.  Since I cannot (and should not) control the placement of the 
> > user's local repository, relative catalog/file references are a must.
> > 
> > I cannot seem to get relative references to work properly for base.dir.  I am trying to control 
the 
> > location of the chunked output.
> > 
> > My customization file looks like this:
> > 
> > <xsl:param name="base.dir" select="'../../project-name/html/'"/>
> > 
> > When I give this to xsltproc, I get:
> > 
> > xsltDocumentElem: unable to save project-name/html/fonts.html
> > 
> > This is unrelated to the very recently reported problem of xsltproc not creating missing 
directory 
> > (or at least I don't think so because the directories are there).
> > 
> > Either
> > 1) My assumption that relative position begins at the .xml document is incorrect.
> > or
> > 2) base.dir does not support relative locations
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I've never had problems in xsltproc with relative pathnames
> that include .. syntax like this.  If the directory is
> there, it should work.  The stylesheet should be outputing
> a message for each chunk like:
> 
>   Writing ../../project-name/html/ for chapter(secondchapter)
> 
> unless the chunk.quietly parameter is set to 1.
> It should include the dots.
> 
> For that matter, the xsltDocumentElem error message should
> include the dots as well, but your example does not.
> Is it possible that the param is being overridden somehow?
>
Further testing shows:
 
When I use chunk.xsl as the stylesheet all works well.
When I use profile-chunk.xsl as the stylesheet, I lose the '../../'.

Hope that helps.

John