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

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.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?

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