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

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Mauritz,
Sounds good.  Could you please file a bug report to get this into the next 
release?

Also, is that namespace URI correct?  It doesn't start with http:// like 
most.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
To: "'Bob Stayton'" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] xml:base and DocBook stylesheets


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Stayton
>> In 1.70.1, Norm added a template named 'add-xml-base' to to
>> common/stripns.xsl do that.  That template is called only
>> when processing a
>> DocBook 5 document because it gets put into a nodeset before
>> applying the
>> regular templates.  But there is no standard function in XSLT 1.0 for
>> identifying the xml:base of the current document. However,
>> there is a Saxon
>> extension function saxon:systemId that can do that.  So
>> add-xml-base checks
>> to see if that function exists, and if it does, it computes
>> the xml:base of
>> the document and adds that attribute to the root element in
>> the internal
>> nodeset.
>
>
> Perhaps a warning message should be emitted if you don't use Saxon.
>
> It is possible to add support for Xalan-Java, which has a systemId 
> extension
> function too. The function can be used in a stylesheet like this:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>    xmlns:NodeInfo="org.apache.xalan.lib.NodeInfo">
>   ...
>   <xsl:value-of select="NodeInfo:systemId()"/>
>
> See http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensionslib.html#nodeinfo.
>
> /MJ
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