Copying my xsl files from the configuration directory to a temporary
directory worked. I could create proper URL's from the temporary directory.
Thanks,
--Mike
At 10:39 AM 9/4/2007, Mike Thompson wrote:
>Thanks but I don't yet see a solution.
>I want to call:
>System.setProperty(
> "docb.toHTML1.transform",
> xlsName);
>
>Experimentation leads me to conclude that "xlsName" must be a string
>that is an absolute URL. Please tell me if that is not so.
>
>The xls file named by xlsName is a file that is relative to the
>configuration directory.
>
>The API: URL thURL =
>getApp().getActiveOpenedDocument().getConfiguration().getURL();
>returns a URL that does indeed start with file://server/path... So
>I see no way of deriving an absolute URL that java can handle.
>
>If "xlsName" in the above SetProperty function can be relative -- or
>a file path rather than a URL, then I will have a solution.
>
>getApp().getActiveOpenedDocument().getStyleSheetInfo() does not help
>me because the document does not know about the style sheets of
>interest. I guess I could figure out how to get the document to
>know about the style sheet -- but even if I do, I fear the URL will
>again include a UNC.
>
>The only other alternative I see is to re-implement the
>docb.toHTML1.transform command in my custom.xxe, and make copies of
>the resources that it expects to copy.
>
>--Mike
>
>
>
>
>At 01:21 AM 9/3/2007, you wrote:
>>Mike Thompson wrote:
>>>Thanks again. That was too easy.
>>>My final problem with this attempt:
>>>The style sheet is located at:
>>>file:/H:/Application%20Data/XMLmind/XMLEditor/addon/docbook/xsl/html-review.xsl
>>>
>>>
>>>which is a microsoft share. If I use that explicitly, it works fine.
>>>However, if I use
>>>getApp().getActiveOpenedDocument().getConfiguration(); to get the
>>>configuration file, and then locate the style sheet relative to
>>>that directory, the API returns a URL containing the UNC (e.g.,
>>>"file:/tinsman-v/me/Application%20Data/XMLmind/XMLEditor/addon/docbook/xsl/html-review.xsl")
>>>
>>>rather than the drive letter. And it fails to find the style sheet.
>>>I suspect the UNC problem is not new. Is there any reasonable solution?
>>
>>[1] "file:/tinsman-v/me..." does not specify an UNC path. It should
>>start with "file://tinsman-v/me...".
>>
>>[2] In all cases, Java cannot handle file://server/path URLs.
>>Use XMLmind's utility FileUtil.urlToFile(URL) to convert this kind
>>of URL (provided that its starts with "file://") to a java.io.File object.
>>
>>See
>>http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditapp/kit/OpenedDocument.html#getStyleSheetInfo()
>>
>>[3] Why not use directly
>>getApp().getActiveOpenedDocument().getStyleSheetInfo()? This
>>directly lists all the CSS style sheets associated with current document.
>>
>>See
>>http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditapp/kit/OpenedDocument.html#getStyleSheetInfo()
