• To: <xml-dev@l...>,"Dave Pawson" <dpawson@n...>
• Subject: Re: rfc 1738
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@x...>
• Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 13:14:06 -0500
• References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030501172546.00aec100@p...>

For one thing, URLs don't use backslashes. Either of the following should
work (for a local file):

file://machine/path/file.xml
file:///path/file.xml

An odd number of leading slashes indicates there is no "authority".

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Pawson" <dpawson@n...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject:  rfc 1738


> 1994 I guess UNC's didn't cause much of a problem.
>
> Trying to work out how a UNC might fit into XSLT, the document() function,
> which requires a uri.
>
> Tried various combinations, and (possibly because of the java sandbox)
> I can't retrieve a document from, for instance
> document('file://\\machine\\path\file.xml')
>    or the various combinations thereof.
>
> Anyone know how this might be written please?
>
> TIA, DaveP
>
>
>
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