Oh, that's where I misunderstood it. Since the doc I want to get the
base uri from is the one being processed, I was able to simply do:
document($filename, .)
Thanks much for clearing that up for me.
Eric
Erin Harris wrote:
>The spec says: "The base URI (see [3.2 Base URI]) of the nod
The spec says: "The base URI (see [3.2 Base URI]) of the node in the second
argument node-set that is first in document order is used as the base URI
for resolving the relative URI into an absolute URI.".
So it looks like an actual node in an existing document is needed for the
second parameter so
I'm finding frustration trying to use the second parameter of the
document function. (I'm using xalan 2.7.0) It seems like it ought to be
a simple, useful, and intuitive thing, but damned if I can get it to
work, or find a good example of it anywhere, from Michael Kay's book to
the internet.
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