title: In Maven, can I specify a relative path above my current project?
body: <p>I'm learning maven on the fly while doing work on a project with a large set of projects to build.</p>
  
  <p>Currently a line in the main build uses an absolute path to specify a directory that is part of the subversion repository but "above" it's directory.</p>
  
  <p>as in: "C:/work/project/eclipse" where "project" is the checked-in directory, and the pom.xml is in "C:/work/project/src/subproject/pom.xml"</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to make that line a relative address instead.</p>
  
  <p>I tried specifying "../../Eclipse....", put that didn't seem to work.</p>
  
  <p>It could also be because that same variable is being used by a sub-sub-project's pom file.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice (aside from rewrite the whole mess, which I just don't know enough about maven to do yet)?</p>