Hi,

  I think xml:base [1] would be a possible option.

felix

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Arian Hojat <armyofda12mnkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure if this is best forum for my question,
>  but here goes.
>
>  I have an xml file in one directory and an xml file in another directory.
>  Both are the same html-like language. In this language u can do an
>  'include' that gets the another xml file to create a merged document.
>  A merge xsl transformation is first run on a file to see if it has
>  other files to pull in.
>
>  From this stage, another xsl is used to translate the merged xml file
>  with FOP to xslfo/pdf.
>
>  But for image references I have to manually copy over to the directory
>  with the merged file. Otherwise since the 2nd xml file's image
>  references are relative to its directory, the merged file doesnt know
>  where it is. Anyone have an elegant solution to this?
>
>  The xsl that creates the merged copy, should change the url to the
>  image to be relative to it and also it would be nice to copy the image
>  also to the new file's images directory.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Ari