In my xslt customization layer, I don't declare anything having to do with path (except for importing the docbook xsl !) I found that Windows paths were cumbersome to set in my customization layer and hard to reconstruct on different machines. Using Oxygen Editor Variables was a lot easier for me.
When I import my docbook-epub xsl path in Windows, I do it in my xslt customization layer and I use a relative path instead of an absolute path. (i.e., <xsl:import href="" ). If you use some of the epub scenarios provided by Oxygen and are not careful, you can accidentally change the paths to everything to be in c:/program files. which is bad. My latest docbook xslt are simply in "c:/My Documents/1 latest" (which is where I chose to copy them to).
If you want to have the output files in the same directory as your docbook xml source, all you would need to do is to edit the value in the Edit Scenario popup for Parameters (Instead of doing it in the xslt customization layer).
So if you wanted to create an OEBPS folder inside your source directory, you would simply go to Edit Scenario and say:
base.dir = ${cfd}/OEBPS/ or ${cfd} instead of the values I used.
I suspect the reason you want to keep your output files in the same directory as your source directory is so you don't have to copy/sync all the images in the images directory (and css into your output directory). Generally I found it was easier to manually duplicate your assets into the output directory, and then, when I declare the paths in docbook xml, I do something like this: <imagedata contentwidth="150px" contentdepth="189px" fileref="images-epub/small-small.jpg"/>. ( leave img.src.path value blank in both my customization layer and in the Oxygen scenario parameter popup dialog).
Copying assets manually into the output directory may not be elegant (I'm sure using ant scripts would do the job), but it's a heck of a lot easier.
Hope this helps (or at least helps people who are looking for a fast and easy way to produce epub files using Oxygen).
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