xinclude and pathnames

[Tim Arnold]

"Tim Arnold" <tiarno at sas.com> wrote in message 
news:ee9231$mpj$1 at foggy.unx.sas.com...
> I'm using ElementTree to access some xml configuration files, and using 
> the module's xinclude capability. I've got lines like this in the parent 
> xml file (which lives in the same directory as the included xml file):
> <xi:include 
> href="/dept/app/doc/current/en/xml/asdf/asdf_syntaxterms.xml"/>
>
> When I started the project it was Unix-only; this worked fine. Now I have 
> users who want to use the system on Windows and of course that directory 
> path doesn't exist on Windows, but it is available on the network using a 
> name like \\ladida\current\en\xml\asdf\asdf_syntaxterms.xml
>
> if relative paths worked, I could imagine
> <xi:include href="asdf_syntaxterms.xml" /> would work.
> Also,the file can be read via an http server.
>
> My question: is there a way to make xinclude work with relative paths or 
> perhaps urls?
> Any ideas welcome--to me it looks like I'll have to restructure this part 
> of the system since I've basically programmed myself into a corner.
>

Replying to my own post. With no replies I assume that means either (a) I 
didn't explain the problem very well, or (b) I really have programmed myself 
into a corner and there's no other way to happiness except to rethink the 
problem.

That is, is there really no way to share xinclude'd files between *nix and 
Windows platforms.

Anyone been down this road before?
thanks,
--Tim Arnold