URL issues with Xalan

[Paul Kinnucan <pa...@mathworks.com>]

Hi,

Xalan turns all local file references in input XML files and XSL files into file:/// URLs that an entity handler must decode and that prevent associating a stylesheet with an XML file. For example, trying to transform

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="category.xsl"?>
<catalog>
  <cd>
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
    <country>USA</country>
    <company>Columbia</company>
    <price>10.90</price>
    <year>1985</year>
  </cd>
</catalog>

produces the following Xerces exception:

"unable to open primary document entity 'file:///W:/category.xsl'"

Is there a way to prevent Xalan from turning local file paths into URLs?

Paul

RE: URL issues with Xalan

[Paul Kinnucan <pa...@mathworks.com>]

This is not an issue with Xalan but an issue with the XML file I was transforming. The PI instruction specified a non-existent xsl file.

From: Paul Kinnucan
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 10:51 PM
To: c-users@xalan.apache.org
Subject: URL issues with Xalan


Hi,

Xalan turns all local file references in input XML files and XSL files into file:/// URLs that an entity handler must decode and that prevent associating a stylesheet with an XML file. For example, trying to transform

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="category.xsl"?>
<catalog>
  <cd>
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
    <country>USA</country>
    <company>Columbia</company>
    <price>10.90</price>
    <year>1985</year>
  </cd>
</catalog>

produces the following Xerces exception:

"unable to open primary document entity 'file:///W:/category.xsl'"

Is there a way to prevent Xalan from turning local file paths into URLs?

Paul