set writeabsolutesysid= { on | off}

This option determines whether the save and write commands will update the system identifier on the DOCTYPE declaration when writing XML documents. If the option is off (the default), the system ID will not be changed if it is not null. If the original system ID is null, Arbortext Editor writes the base name of the DTD corresponding to the document type. If the option is on, then Arbortext Editor writes an absolute URI for the system ID corresponding to the document type used to load the document (or to the -public option if given). If the -sysid option is used on the write command, then that value is used regardless of the writeabsolutesysid option setting.

The set writeabsolutesysid command also affects the href written for stylesheet associations. If this options is off, the hrefs of existing stylesheet associations are written unchanged, and for new stylesheet associations where the stylesheet is in the same directory as the document or the DTD, a relative URI is written for the href. When this option is on, relative URIs are converted to absolute file:// URI specifications.