It's possible to specify the base URL of the input document with either the Prince --baseurl command line option, or an xml:base="..." attribute in the source document
The --baseurl command line option applies to both links like <a href="..."> and to stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Both the --baseurl command line option and the xml:base="..." attributes apply to links like <a href="...">
- but xml:base="..." attributes don't apply to stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
For example, when I process this input document, http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/
- with,
$ prince --baseurl http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/foo/bar.html index.html
- then the <a href=".."> correctly links to http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/ and the stylesheet, <link href="../index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>, is found at http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/index.css, so the background is red
The root element of the input document has an xml:base="http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/foo/bar.html" attribute, and when I process it without the --baseurl command line option the <a href=".."> still correctly links to http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/, but the stylesheet isn't found so the background isn't white, http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/index.pdf
What am I doing wrong? How can I get stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> to resolve against the base URL from an xml:base="..." attribute?
The --baseurl command line option applies to both links like <a href="..."> and to stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Both the --baseurl command line option and the xml:base="..." attributes apply to links like <a href="...">
- but xml:base="..." attributes don't apply to stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
For example, when I process this input document, http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/
- with,
$ prince --baseurl http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/foo/bar.html index.html
- then the <a href=".."> correctly links to http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/ and the stylesheet, <link href="../index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>, is found at http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/index.css, so the background is red
The root element of the input document has an xml:base="http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/foo/bar.html" attribute, and when I process it without the --baseurl command line option the <a href=".."> still correctly links to http://www.sf.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/, but the stylesheet isn't found so the background isn't white, http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/css/201002190/index.pdf
What am I doing wrong? How can I get stylesheets like <link href="..." rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> to resolve against the base URL from an xml:base="..." attribute?