• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XSLT and URI processing
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:54:48 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <r01050300-1015-AA4A318C9A8311D681C10003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> However, XSLT and XPath appear to lack anything like an 
> "absolutize" function.  I don't see any clear path forward 
> for this in the context of XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0, nor do my 
> preliminary explorations of the 2.0 versions offer me much 
> more hope on this issue.

Between them, I think the XPath 2.0 functions base-URI() [1] and
resolve-URI() [2] should meet your needs. If not, please raise a comment
on the document.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-base-uri
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-resolve-URI

Michael Kay
Software AG
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