Nicholas Loulloudes wrote:

Is is possible the URI attribute of DataStaging-Source Element to include a local absolute path (i.e /home/user/directory/file.sh) ?

Local to the side interpreting the job? Yes, of course, though it should be prefixed by 'file:', like this: file:/home/user/directory/file.sh Files on the system composing the JSDL document are another matter. The problem is just because you name a thing doesn't mean that the other end knows what to do to access it. There are a number of workarounds for this, e.g. starting a local http or ftp server, etc. Two of the most interesting things you can do though are cid: and data: URI types, which allow you respectively to either transfer the data as an attachment to the message conveying the JSDL document or directly embedded within the document (respectively). References: RFC 1630 <URI:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1630.txt> includes the definition of the cid uri type. RFC 2397 <URI:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt> defines the data uri type. Donal Fellows.