This isn't actually an XSLT problem, it's a JAXP/SAX problem...

Specify a base URI for the source document by calling setSystemId() on
the SAXSource object, and perhaps on the InputSource object as well.

Note that a SAX parser must convert a relative URI to an absolute URI
before it calls your EntityResolver.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> David Byrden
> Sent: 30 August 2002 13:26
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Xalan complains about relative DTD URL in 
> transformed document
> 
> 
> 
> 
>          I'm using JDK14 to transform some XML
> documents that reference a DTD with a relative URL.
> 
>          I'm getting this exception:
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Relative URI "../../text 
> bodies.dtd"; can 
> not be resolved without a base URI.
> 
>          Believe me I've spent time on this, and the
> code I'm using now is from a solution posted to this
> list by J.Pietschmann:
> 
> 
> Transformer tr = 
> TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer( transform ) 
> ; SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory = 
> SAXParserFactory.newInstance() ; 
> saxParserFactory.setValidating( false ) ; XMLReader xmlReader 
> = saxParserFactory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader() ; 
> xmlReader.setEntityResolver( new MyResolver() ) ; 
> tr.transform( new SAXSource( xmlReader, src ), res ) ;
> 
> Unfortunately it does not work, in that the MyResolver
> is not even called on to resolve anything before
> the exception occurs.
> 
> Any ideas? I do want to use a relative URL for the DTD.
> 
>                                                          David
> 
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