I ran into the same problem and I decided to change my batch file so
that it created a temporary XML file pointing to all the other XML files
to include.

BuildAll.Bat (with line
numbering)-------------------------------------------------------------
1:	@echo off
2:	echo Building pages...
3:	echo ^<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?^> > _build.tmp
4:	echo ^<builds type="%1"^> >> _build.tmp
5:	for /r %x in (*.xml) do echo ^<build file="file:/%x"/^>
>>c:\mywebsite\_build.tmp
7:	echo ^</builds^> >> _build.tmp
8:	xt   _build.tmp stylesheet.xsl
9:	del /e _build.tmp > nul
10:	echo Done.
11:	beep
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------

Put this file in your root XML folder.
Things you need to customize:
Line 5: change c:\mywebsite\ with the path where BuildAll.Bat resides.
Line 8: change to reflect the syntax of your XSL processor

This will produce a file, called _build.tmp which looks like:
_build.tmp--------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<builds type="release">
	<build file="file:/c:/mysite/page1.xml"/>
	<build file="file:/c:/mysite/page2.xml"/>
	[snip]
</builds>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------

Then, you should modify your XSL file to handle <build> tags:
stylesheet.xsl
(part)------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
	<xsl:template
match="builds"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="build"><xsl:apply-templates
select="document(@file)"/></xsl:template>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------

Run buildall.bat and voila!

Regards,
Alek Andreev
alek@xxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ronald
heller
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:00 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  saxon in batch file for lots and lots of xml files

Hi there,

I have a large directory with rather small xml files. There may be well 
over 500 files in there.
Once a day these files are transformed with saxon 6.2.
Although this goes well, it takes a lot of time.
I have a feeling that is is not the transformation itself that takes a
lot 
of time, but that the starting and closing of saxon is.
let me show you some code from the batchfiles:

1.bat:
---------------------------------------
for %%b in ("*.xml") do call 2.bat %%b CC
rem. for each xml file that is found I call 2.bat


2.bat
---------------------------------------
java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o "%1-a" "%1" "convert.xsl"
rem for each file that has to be transformed saxon/java is started and
closed.

Is there a quicker/smarter way of doing this?

any help is appreciated

Regards,

Ronald

(ps I tried Instant saxon, but that gives more or less the same results)


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