Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with xml:base when processing ulinks tohtml

[Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org>]

Bob Stayton wrote:
> Try the version of common/common.xsl in CVS now.  It wasn't recursing like
> it was supposed to.
> 
> Also, if you are using xsltproc, be sure to use a version based on libxml2
> version 2.6.11 or later.  There was a bug in xml:base processing in versions
> before that.

But xsltproc is part of libxslt, not libxml2, so I'm not sure which 
version is appropriate.

Cheers,
Mark

> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin@gmail.com>
> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with xml:base when processing ulinks to
> html
> 
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the quick answer and for thinking about xml:base in the
>>next version of the stylesheets.
>>
>>However, the following tree of documents breaks the relative-uri
>>template currently in CVS:
>>--- article.xml ---
>><article><xi:include href="a/para.xml"
>>xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/></article>
>>--- a/para.xml ---
>><para>
>><xi:include href="b/inlinegraphic.xml"
>>xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
>></para>
>>--- a/b/inlinegraphic.xml ---
>><inlinegraphic fileref="img.gif"/>
>>-------
>>Then running `xsltproc --xinclude <cvs-HEAD/xsl/html/docbook.xsl>
>>article.xml` returns: "... <p><img
>>src="b/img.gif"></p></div></body></html>" which isn't the right img
>>link.
>>
>>The relevant problem is that @xml:base's value can be a relative URI.
>>I'm happy to try to fix this if you don't have time.
>>
>>Jeffrey
>>
>>
>>>The next release of the XSL stylesheets will resolve xml:base attributes
>>>inserted by XIncludes, but only for references to graphics files.  The
> 
> ulink
> 
>>>url is never processed by the stylesheet because it doesn't know
> 
> anything
> 
>>>about the url.
>>>
>>>If you want to customize it to do so, you could take a look at the
> 
> template
> 
>>>named 'relative-uri' in common/common.xsl in the CVS tree, or wait for
> 
> the
> 
>>>next release.
>>
>>
> 

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