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

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