Re: [xep-support] why does XEP always take images from the output directory?

From: G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 09:48:53 PST


At 2002-11-14 17:43 +0200, Rajat Vig wrote:
>I ve an element in the style sheet like <fo:external-graphic
>src="url('amdocs.gif')"/>
>
>The directory where the image is located is determined by an environment
>variable.

You will have to pass the value of this environment variable to your
stylesheet as a parameter so that you can compose an absolute URI in the
formatting object itself.

>It keeps expecting the image in the same directory as the .fo file.

Yes, XSL-FO 1.0 url() points to RFC2396 which states "a relative identifier
refers to a resource by describing the difference within a hierarchical
namespace between the current context and an absolute identifier of the
resource.". The current context is the FO instance.

I hope this helps.

.......... Ken

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