[jdom-interest] How to specify a basedir from the Transformer

[Per Norrman]

Ken Roberts wrote:
> Passing in a system property to a JVM is done by specifying 
> -Dvariable=value, no spaces on the command line.
> 
> Doing this inside JBoss means editing your run.bat file or your run.sh 
> file, or (if redhat) the jboss_init_redhat.sh file.
> 
<irony>
   Thank you very much for that timely and accurate piece of information.
</irony>

Serioulsy, next time, please read the entire thread before jumping in ...

/pmn


> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:38, Per Norrman wrote:
> 
>>/Patrick JUSSEAU wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> So there is no way to pass in a system property to set this up?
>>> 
>>Not that I'm aware of, no.
>>
>>> I guess the other solution would be to put all the files I need in the  
>>> same directory but I would rather have the option to set the base dir  
>>> of the external file that is referenced from the document() method.
>>
>>But that is exactly what you would/could do with an URIResolver. It is less
>>that 10 lines of code to have a URIResolver resolve a relative url using a
>>system property as the base uri.
>>
>>/pmn
>>
>>
>>> 
>>> Patrick
>>> 
>>> On 29 Dec 2004, at 19:51, Per Norrman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I believe you can use the Transformer#setURIResolver method.
>>>>
>>>> /pmn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> patrick at openbase.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I am using JDOM to perform an XSL transformation. The problem I have  
>>>>> is that my XSL Document refers to an external file using the  
>>>>> document(URL) method. I don't want to use an absolute URL. What I  
>>>>> would like to do is tell JDOM  (the Transformer) what the basedir is  
>>>>> (/Users/aUser) so that in my XSL file I could use:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> <xsl:variable name="lookupParam" select="document('aFile.xml')"/>
>>>>> ...
>>>>> and aFile.xml would abvioulsy be in /Users/aUser
>>>>> Here is the code I am using
>>>>> Document p_sourceDocument = ....
>>>>> Document p_xslDocument = ....
>>>>> // Create a JDOMSource from the source JDOM Document
>>>>>         JDOMSource source = new JDOMSource(p_sourceDocument);
>>>>>         // Create a JDOMSource from the source XSL Document
>>>>>         JDOMSource xslSource = new JDOMSource(p_xslDocument);
>>>>>         // Get a XSLT Transformer
>>>>>         Transformer transformer =  
>>>>> getTransformerFactory().newTransformer(xslSource);
>>>>>         // Create a JDOMResult
>>>>>         JDOMResult result = new JDOMResult();
>>>>>         // Populate the Result
>>>>>         transformer.transform(source, result);
>>>>> I guess there must be some way to tell the underlying Transformer  
>>>>> what the basedir is?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Patrick
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