DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Imagedata/entityref and full pathname problem

[Jens Emmerich <Jens dot Emmerich at encorus dot com>]

Hi,

we had the same problem here and I found the question while searching
the list with an (older) answer from Norm (use fileref or fiddle with
the stylesheets).

Does anybody know *why* the XSL standard mandates the resolution of
relative URLs? Does that mean that transformed documents can only be
used in-place?

>From the XSL standard:

3.3 Unparsed Entities

         The root node has a mapping that gives the URI for each
         unparsed entity declared in the document's DTD. The URI is
         generated from the system identifier and public identifier
         specified in the entity declaration. The XSLT processor may
         use the public identifier to generate a URI for the entity
         instead of the URI specified in the system identifier. If the
         XSLT processor does not use the public identifier to generate
         the URI, it must use the system identifier; if the system
         identifier is a relative URI, it must be resolved into an
         absolute URI using the URI of the resource containing the
         entity declaration as the base URI [RFC2396].

(end excerpt)

Jens