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From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
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Subject: Re: How do I set a filesystem local stylesheet for xsl transformation?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:21:39 +0000
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On 01/16/2017 03:57 PM, Johann Klammer wrote:
> (in linux with firefox)
> This snippet:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="res:///usr/share/pcb/pcb_ba.xsl"?>
> <!DOCTYPE pcb_ba SYSTEM "/usr/share/pcb/pcb_ba.dtd">
> 
> It works ok if I just give href="pcb_ba.xsl"
> and the file is in the current directory. 
> But if I put an absolute path there, 
> I'll just get a blank screen and the 
> debugger sez there's no stylesheet loaded. 
> Same problem if I prefix with file:// or res:// as above.
> I can ls and cat the file, as user, 
> so it's likely not a permissions problem. 
> 
> What am i doing wrong?

Browser XSLT is so badly broken that it is probably better to use
Saxon-CE or Saxon-JS.

///Peter