Re: [docbook-apps] xml:base and stylesheets

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> writes:

> Thanks. I am indeed using the snapshot because the 169.1 doesn't work 
> wioth DocBook 5.  Where"s the code to resolve this hiding? I'm now 
> seeing output like this:
> 
> s week's topics are relatively new. They are not yet covered in
> many books. One notable exception is
> </p>
> 
> <img width="107" align="left" 
> src="file:/Users/elharo/Projects/workspace/CS905/build/week13////Users/elharo/Projects/workspace/CS905/build/awt.gif"/>
> 
> when I should have this:
> 
> 
> <img width="107" align="left" 
> src="file:///Users/elharo/Projects/workspace/CS905/build/week13/awt.gif"/>
> 
> I suspect the xml:base attributes which use only one initial slash are 
> somehow confusing the base resolution code. I hate file URIs. I have to 
> reread all the RFCs now to figure out whose got the bug.

I think the bug is in Xerces. See the following thread:

  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200603/msg00165.html

And the following Xerces bug report:

  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1102

If you use "xmllint --xinclude" or "xsltproc --xinclude" instead,
I think you won't see the pathname getting doubled the way it does
with Xerces.

Apparently, it's possible to work around it by explicitly putting
an xml:base on the root element in each of the doc instances that
you are Xincluding -

  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200603/msg00212.html

Hope that helps,

  --Mike

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