Re: Xalan Java2: XPath fragment with href in include element

[Simon Del Fabbro <si...@cqrdata.com>]

Hi,

I have encountered a problem when trying to include a stylesheet which 
has an XPath fragment in a URI.

I am working on a document management system and we have our own
namespace, 
URL and URL handler. A stylesheet is wrapped up in some element as
follows

<some-tag>
   <xsl:stylesheet>
     ...
   </xsl:stylesheet>
</some-tag>

To import the stylesheet I would write:

<xsl:include href="cqr:////<some name to the content which contains the
XSL>#some-tag/* %5B
namespace-uri()='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' and
local-name()='stylesheet' %5D"/>

where %5B and %5D are [ and ] respectively.

This doesn't work. The templates defined in the imported template aren't
imported. Looking
at the Xalan code I noticed that the following method defined
org.apache.xalan.processor.StyleSheetHandler
sets the variable m_shouldProcess to false because my base identifier
has a # in it and therefore
the stylesheet doesn't get imported.

void pushBaseIndentifier(String baseID)
  {
    if (null != baseID)
    {
      int posOfHash = baseID.indexOf('#');

      if (posOfHash > -1)
      {
        m_fragmentIDString = baseID.substring(posOfHash + 1);
        m_shouldProcess = false;
      }
      else {
        m_shouldProcess = true;
      }
    }
    else
      m_shouldProcess = true;

    m_baseIdentifiers.push(baseID);
  }

So here's my question: what is this method doing? i.e. what sort of base
identifiers is this check
looking for?

Also, pushBaseIndentifier is misspelt. 

Additional points to consider:
URL handler with XPath works OK. Grabs the right blob of XML elements
i.e. a stream containing an XML document which is
a stylesheet.
Here's weird one. The included stylesheet contained a template which the
importing stylesheet called. This template wasn't
obviously being called (trace writes verified this), but no error was
raised. That is, no-template-with-name-was-found type 
error was raised. Removing this include statement or placing it at the
end of the stylesheet and it complained that it couldn't
find the template.

S.