Just to follow up on this, if you are using DocBook5, then the stripNS mode
used to process a DB5 document with the current stylesheets also adds an
absolute path xml:base to the root element of your document before
processing it. Actually, only Saxon currently does this because it
requires a processor extension to fetch the uri of the document being
processed. When keep.relative.image.uris is set to zero (the default),
then images are resolved relative to that xml:base.
If you process a DB5 document with the experimental stylesheets I posted
information about yesterday, then the stripNS mode is not necessary because
the document is processed with DB5-matching templates. So absolute
xml:base is added, and no absolute uris are generated, regardless of the
keep.relative.image.uris parameter.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stayton" <>
To: "Chris Chiasson" <>; "Mauritz Jeanson"
<>
Cc: <>; "Miller, Ray (Centech)"
<>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook HTML and MHT Conversion Issues
> Chris,
> It isn't always the case when you process a file with Saxon (and Xerces
> and the Jakarta XML commons resolver) that it writes out full paths for
> images. Can you provide more information?
> Is this with a DocBook 5 document?
> Have you tried setting the parameter keep.relative.image.uris to 1 (zero
> is the default)?
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Chiasson" <>
> To: "Mauritz Jeanson" <>
> Cc: <>; "Miller, Ray (Centech)"
> <>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook HTML and MHT Conversion Issues
>
>
>> When I process with Saxon (and Xerces and the Jakarta XML commons
>> resolver), it writes the full file:///absolute/path/ url to image
>> files into my html, xhtml, and fo output. This is not a big deal for
>> fo output, but messes up html and xhtml if they are served on a web
>> server. Furthermore, if the files are moved to another directory after
>> being created, the absolute references break (this happens as part of
>> my Ant build process, where the build directory is a different
>> directory from the destination).
>>
>> On 10/4/06, Mauritz Jeanson <> wrote:
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From:
>>> >
>>> > this is happening because Saxon is writing full paths into
>>> > your html files
>>> > xsltproc won't do this
>>>
>>>
>>> What paths are you referring to? Image paths? I'm curious since I
>>> haven't
>>> noticed any differences between Saxon and xsltproc. Can you please
>>> elaborate?
>>>
>>> /MJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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