How to run xquery dynamically on file listing fromdirectory

[Michael Kay]

The description of what Saxon will accept as argument to the collection
function is given at

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/collections.html

This includes the option of using a file scheme URI of a directory. It also
includes options such as http://temp.dir?recurse=yes which processes the
directory contents recursively, and http://temp.dir?select=*.xml which
processes selected files within the directory.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] 
> Sent: 12 April 2008 12:53
> To: Michael Kay
> Cc: http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk; http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
> Subject: Re:  How to run xquery dynamically on 
> file listing fromdirectory
> 
> so you're saying Saxon will accept a file scheme uri to the directory?
> Just to clarify.
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Michael Kay 
> <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> >
> >  >Is there anyway to do something like:
> >     for $x in collection("xmlfiles")
> >  where 'xmlfiles' is a subdirectory containing the actual 
> xml files I 
> > want to
> >
> >  use?  I would need to know the exact syntax, as this is 
> all new to me.
> >
> >
> >  As others have said, the interpretation of the URI passed to 
> > collection() is  very much processor-dependent. Altova have 
> their own 
> > XQuery processor, and I  would imagine it treats 
> collection() in the 
> > same way as their XSLT
> >  processor: in their 2007 product that's effectively a null 
> > implementation,  in the 2008 version it does roughly the same as 
> > Saxon: you can either  specify a directory name, or the 
> name of an XML 
> > file that acts as a catalog  of the collection. IIRC, they don't 
> > provide the ability to filter the  contents of the directory.
> >
> >  Michael Kay
> >  http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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