xinclude and relative files

[Shawn Heisey <so...@elyograg.org>]

I found some discussion saying that starting in 3.1, files that you 
xinclude with a relative path from something like solrconfig.xml are 
relative to the location of the file with the xinclude.

I use a directory structure where solrconfig.xml in the individual core 
directory is a symlink to another directory, so that similar cores can 
share configs.  Currently those xincludes are absolute paths, but when I 
move to Solr4, I want to make them relative so that multiple config 
structures can coexist.  Will a relative xinclude start at the location 
of the symlink, or the actual file? I can't try it out at this time, 
though I will do so in a few days. If someone happens to know, it would 
help me greatly.

I'd like to learn what the community thinks SHOULD happen with a 
symlinked xml file that has relative xincludes.  Should the includes be 
relative to the actual file or the symlink?  Is this a question more 
suited to the -dev list?

Thanks,
Shawn