Saxon

Are there plans to address this?

I have re-read the long and complex thread for the previous bugs. Clearly we need to start again. It appears we fixed the test case that we were using, which must have differed in some material respect from your test case, so I think it would be useful if you can describe precisely what you are doing and how it fails, so that we can produce a test case that resembles your situation more closely. Please be as specific as possible, including giving all relevant software versions.

Sure Michael,

When using the expath file function with a UNC path and exception is thrown. <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat('file://', '_myFile.xml')"/>

NOt sure why this didn't show above

<xsl:variable name="filename"
			select="concat('file://', '_NOC.xml')"/>

Thanks O'Neil.

Hi Kevon,

We have tried the following query:

file:exists('//server/xmark/filename.xml')

And it returns true.

We also noticed that if we append file: to the filename: file:exists('file://server/xmark/filename.xml') this returns false. This is expected because file:exists expects a filename not a URI. We need to understand what you are doing and how it fails.

Can you supply your code example? If not I can upload a video of the .NET application and show you it always yields the error stated above.

We were running the Query from the command-line. After looking into a simple API example. I can see that file:exists('//server/xmark/filename.xml') returns false.

Looking into this more closely.

Hi Kevon,

Please ignore comment 9 as I had a typo in my filename. Using the XPath API (should work similar with the XSLT API) the following works for me:

Processor p = new Processor(true);
XPathCompiler c = p.NewXPathCompiler();
c.XPathLanguageVersion = ("3.1");
c.DeclareNamespace("file","http://expath.org/ns/file");
XPathExecutable e = c.Compile("file:exists('//server/xmark/doc.xml')");
XPathSelector s = e.Load();
bool result = s.EffectiveBooleanValue();

Please can you send us a small program which we can run at our end to reproducible the exists function failing in the way you have described.