Yes, exactly what I was after. Thanks and good night :) --Marc
> On 18 feb. 2016, at 23:38, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Marc, > >> when running xquery:eval with a string it will try to resolve paths >> relative to the code module and not relative to the file the string >> came from. > > You could add a base-uri declaration in your query: > > let $uri := 'a/b/c' > let $query := '1' > return xquery:eval( > 'declare base-uri "' || $uri || '"; ' || $query > ) > > Does this help? > Christian > > >> Ideally I would like to be able to set the base-dir for >> xquery:eval. The asciidoc file isn't always in the correct path >> relative to the module that I need to import. >> >> Other options I'm considering but are less ideal. >> >> - Manipulate the module import paths in the query string using regexps >> - Writing out to a temp file and then use xquery:parse-uri (but this >> is tricky as I may not want to clutter existing directories with >> tempfiles only to have the imports work). >> >> Unless there are better options I think I'll opt for string massaging >> using regexps. But maybe someone has a better idea. >> >> --Marc