"Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
