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

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com] 
> Sent: den 21 april 2006 18:15
 
> And now the "right" approach seems both much simpler and much
> more obviously correct: simply make sure that the root element of the
> document has an appropriate xml:base attribute.
> 
> That's where the base needs to be specified, and as you say, the code
> for dealing with images already knows how to walk up the tree looking
> for ancestor xml:base attributes.
> 
> I've made those changes and tested them and indeed they seem to cause
> the right thing to happen. And they shouldn't interfere with the
> $keep.relative.image.uris parameter either.


I found a problem with the latest stripns.xsl, I'm afraid.

On Windows, saxon:systemId() returns this (as an example):

 file:/c:/doctypes/docbook/imgtest-ng.xml

This results in the following xml:base attribute on the root element of the
stripped document: 

 /c:/doctypes/docbook/

The leading slash is clearly not right. 
And if the leading slash wasn't there, would it really be a valid URI (since
there is no 'file:///' prefix)? 

/MJ