diff --git a/latka/plugin.jelly b/latka/plugin.jelly
index 6e0856d8..1fbb222f 100644
--- a/latka/plugin.jelly
+++ b/latka/plugin.jelly
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
       <j:forEach var="file" items="${latkaFiles.iterator()}">
 
         <echo>Executing ${file}</echo>
-        <j:import uri="${file.toURL().toExternalForm()}" inherit="true"/>
+        <j:import file="${file.canonicalPath}" inherit="true"/>
         
       </j:forEach>
 
@@ -82,13 +82,14 @@
       <!-- Major hack - set jaxp properties as they are foobared -->
       ${systemScope.setProperty('javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory','org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl')}
 
-      <x:parse xml="file://${jmeterFile}" var="jmeter"/>
+      <u:file var="jmeterAsFile" name="${jmeterFile}" />
+      <x:parse xml="${jmeterAsFile}" var="jmeter"/>
       <mkdir dir="${maven.build.dir}/latka" />
       <j:file name="${outFileName}" prettyPrint="true">
         <x:element name="j:jelly">
           <x:attribute name="xmlns:j">jelly:core</x:attribute>
           <x:attribute name="xmlns">jelly:org.apache.commons.latka.jelly.LatkaTagLibrary</x:attribute>
-          <j:import uri="file://${plugin.resources}/jmeter2suite.jelly" inherit="true"/>
+          <j:import file="${plugin.resources}/jmeter2suite.jelly" inherit="true"/>
         </x:element>
       </j:file>
       <echo>Latka test suite '${outFileName}' created</echo>