Cannot include XSLT utilities in email XSLT

[nickdunn]

I tried to include another XSLT file in my email template XSLT, but it killed the process. It seemed to resolve the path of my include file relative to the root of my Symphony build, whereas I had expected the internal paths between XSLT documents to honour the hierarchy inside /workspace (i.e. in an email template I'd expect to use ../../utilities/my-utility.xsl.)

[creativedutchmen]

This has been quite a bit of a problem for me in the past, too.

Do you have any idea where I can set the include path for XML files? Thusfar I have not been able to find it.

[nickdunn]

I think Symphony gets around this by creating a base XSLT document itself, then loading all other files into it (i.e. the page file). It imports this with the absolute path on disk, and I suppose all subsequent includes would then be relative to it.

https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/blob/master/symphony/lib/toolkit/class.frontendpage.php#L474-477

[kanduvisla]

You can include XSLT-utilities, but you should include them from your root, like so:

<xsl:import href="workspace/utilities/format-date.xsl" />

However, this is not the correct behavior you would expect (and this import-statement breaks my autocomplete for this specific utility in my IDE). So you should be able to use ../../ and the extension should automagicly deal with this.