Re: multiple input to multiple output

Zvon tutorials 
http://zvon.vscht.cz/ZvonHTML/Zvon/zvonTutorials_en.html
generally use this perl - XSLT strategy. 

The last two, WML and Crossfire  generate indexes  very simply as
follows:
perl opens all source files and creates one new XML file. From this file
indexes are generated by applying several XSLT stylesheets.

Mitch Christensen wrote:
> 
> I would recommend a general purpose Perl script which outputs an XML
> representation of the directory (optionally recursive).  This directory.xml
> then can be used for any/all file processing from within XSL.
> 
> An example would be.
> 
> <directory location="file:///C:/">
>   <file name="foo" ext="xml" createdate="blah".../>
>   ...
>   <directory location="file:///C:/DOS">
>   ...
>   </directory>
> </directory>
> 
> Once this file exists, you can use the document() function to process
> files/directories as you like.
> 
> I actually wrote this script for my last project.  Took about an hour to get it
> right.
> 
> -Mitch
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> > Linda van den Brink writes:
> >  > Unfortunalely I don't know any programming/scripting languages at all,
> >  > except for a bit of Omnimark. I wanted to know if could be done with XSL
> >  > itself. If not, maybe I'd best ask my colleague for a perl script?
> >
> > XSL has no access to the directory listing. I am sure Java folk could
> > get at that using extensions such as James Clark allows, but natively
> > in XSL no can do.
> >
> > I cannot see how to solve your problem without *some* kind of
> > scripting. even doing a file list into a file and then mangling that
> > to a valid XML takes some minimal scripting.
> >
> > A Perl script would be a few minutes work, if you have a
> > suitably-equipped colleague
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> 
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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