Thanks. As my documents are in a database I can use db:path [1] for now. /Andy
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:path On 15 December 2014 at 19:58, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > interesting issue. I just tried some other XQuery processors in order > to find out how they resolve the name of a local file: > > • File: [].xml > • Query: base-uri(doc('[].xml')) > > • Saxon: > FODC0002: Exception thrown by URIResolver: > Invalid relative URI {[].xml}: Illegal > character in path at index 0: [].xml > • Zorba: > [err:FODC0005]: "[].xml": invalid URI literal: "91": invalid character c > • BaseX: > [FODC0005] Invalid document URI: '[].xml'. > > I have added an issue in the W3 bug tracker [1]; let's wait for the > response. > > Christian > > [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27612 >