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Re: [xsl] Do you have a rock-solid function for fetching an XML document?

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On 20/05/2011 17:19, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> - references a file in another folder, using an absolute path, e.g., c:/tmp/foo.xml

why this one?

All the rest are just the standard document() function, but this is a requirement for operating-system specific paths (actually operating system specific path with the wrong kind of slash) why not drop that requirement and use the URI syntax

file:///c:/tmp/foo.xml
then you can just use the standard xslt function

document($href,$document)

if you really must have that then

document(replace($href,'^[a-zA-Z]:','file:///$0'),$document)



David

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