DOCBOOK-APPS: Can 'base.dir" be relative?

[John.Himpel@edwardjones.com]

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.

John