Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with xml:base when processing ulinks to html

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

Well, xsltproc is based on the libraries in libxml2, so they are tied
together somewhat.  I just tested it with libxml2 2.6.12 and libxslt 1.1.9,
and they work fine.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Johnson" <mrj@debian.org>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin@gmail.com>;
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with xml:base when processing ulinks to
html


> Bob Stayton wrote:
> > Try the version of common/common.xsl in CVS now.  It wasn't recursing
like
> > it was supposed to.
> >
> > Also, if you are using xsltproc, be sure to use a version based on
libxml2
> > version 2.6.11 or later.  There was a bug in xml:base processing in
versions
> > before that.
>
> But xsltproc is part of libxslt, not libxml2, so I'm not sure which
> version is appropriate.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin@gmail.com>
> > To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> > Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Dealing with xml:base when processing ulinks
to
> > html
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks for the quick answer and for thinking about xml:base in the
> >>next version of the stylesheets.
> >>
> >>However, the following tree of documents breaks the relative-uri
> >>template currently in CVS:
> >>--- article.xml ---
> >><article><xi:include href="a/para.xml"
> >>xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/></article>
> >>--- a/para.xml ---
> >><para>
> >><xi:include href="b/inlinegraphic.xml"
> >>xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
> >></para>
> >>--- a/b/inlinegraphic.xml ---
> >><inlinegraphic fileref="img.gif"/>
> >>-------
> >>Then running `xsltproc --xinclude <cvs-HEAD/xsl/html/docbook.xsl>
> >>article.xml` returns: "... <p><img
> >>src="b/img.gif"></p></div></body></html>" which isn't the right img
> >>link.
> >>
> >>The relevant problem is that @xml:base's value can be a relative URI.
> >>I'm happy to try to fix this if you don't have time.
> >>
> >>Jeffrey
> >>
> >>
> >>>The next release of the XSL stylesheets will resolve xml:base
attributes
> >>>inserted by XIncludes, but only for references to graphics files.  The
> >
> > ulink
> >
> >>>url is never processed by the stylesheet because it doesn't know
> >
> > anything
> >
> >>>about the url.
> >>>
> >>>If you want to customize it to do so, you could take a look at the
> >
> > template
> >
> >>>named 'relative-uri' in common/common.xsl in the CVS tree, or wait for
> >
> > the
> >
> >>>next release.
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> -- 
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