Cannot open file from URL

[GiorgioAresu]

Hi, I'm using a stylesheet which loads an external file like this:

<xsl:variable name="secondaryFileXml" select="document($languageXPath)"/>

where languageXPath contains a relative path and all works, everyone is happy.

The issue is I'm developing an API which transforms the XSL server-side, and I'd like that path to be an URL instead of a filesystem path (or at least a path relative to the stylesheet itself), but if I change $languageXPath with something else, let's say http://localhost:3000/public/[...]/it.xml I get:

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://localhost:3000/public/[...]/it.xml"

It goes without saying that opening that url in a browser works just fine, as well as letting a browser perform the transformation.

I took a look at the underlying libxmljs and it seems that the HTTP part is optional, so enabling it would probably work.

Is there anything we could do?

Thanks

[GiorgioAresu]

Can anyone help please?

[albanm]

I have very little time to dedicate to this project. If you wish to work on the problem and submit a pull request I would gladly review it.