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Subject: Re: [xsl] Exception thrown by OutputURIResolver: Invalid syntax for base URI: Illegal character
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:39:36 +0100

I think that if you want to use filenames that aren't valid as URIs you will probably need to write your own OutputURIResolver. You might be able to get around the problem by %HH-escaping the special characters, but I suspect it will then write a filename containing the %HH escape sequence.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 29/07/2012 16:30, Lighton Phiri wrote:
I am working with XSLT 2.0 using Saxon 9.1.0.8J, and attempting to
write child elements by dynamically creating file paths, however, at
some point during processing, I run into the error below.

     <source node="/sitesdata/site[272]" line="56663"
file="chunkXMLExportNormalised.xml">
      <xsl:template match="site" line="23" column="31"
module="splitPreprocessor.xsl">
       <xsl:variable name="tmp-normalised-localName" line="26"
module="splitPreprocessor.xsl">
        <xsl:variable name="tmp-filename" line="52"
module="splitPreprocessor.xsl">
         <xsl:variable name="filename" line="54" module="splitPreprocessor.xsl">
          <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" line="59" column="46"
module="splitPreprocessor.xsl">
Error on line 59 of splitPreprocessor.xsl:
   Exception thrown by OutputURIResolver: Invalid syntax for base URI:
Illegal character in
   path at index 60:
../data/Sites/3218AD%5C%20Eland%5C's%5C%20Bay/Koppie/K740%5C[1%5C]/273.metadata
Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported

A quick check online [1] seems to suggest that its something to do
with square brackets in file paths, and true to that, some of my file
paths have '[' and ']' characters in them. How do I resolve this?

[1] http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t598542-square-bracket-possible-in-href-of-xsl-result-document.html

Lighton Phiri
http://lightonphiri.org


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