Re: base uri of a node passed in as a param

[Matthijs Wensveen <m....@func.nl>]

Matthijs Wensveen wrote:
> Hello,
> I was doing some experimenting with what kind of objects you can pass 
> in as a parameter. Turns out you can pass entire org.w3c.dom.Node and 
> Documents into Xalan, which I was very happy with.
> However, I can't seem to find a way to set a base uri of a passed in 
> Document. I've tried to set the document URI with 
> document.setDocumentURI(), but that doesn't seem to work. When you use 
> a Node or Document as a DOMSource  for a transformation, then you can 
> set the systemId.
>
> Example:
> <xsl:stylesheet>
> <xsl:param name="node"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:value-of select="document( $node/file/href, $node )"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Unfortunately URIResolver doesn't give you the base node but a base 
> string in resolve(href, base), because then I could ask the node for 
> it itself, or keep track some other way.
>
> Any ideas? Or am I already too far messing with undocumented features.
>
> BTW. I do understand result-tree fragments and such, so no lectures 
> about that please :) Except when you feel the need to do so anyway :D
>

Bump.
Still struggling with this.  If I fix this in the source code, would 
that be an interesting patch? If not, I won't spend time on this 
anymore, but if it is, I'll try to implement this 'feature' and supply a 
patch.

Regards,
Matthijs