RE: concatenating 1-n XML files

> 1. Can I use the document() function with wildcards in the 
> doc-name ? something like: <xsl:for-each 
> select="document('name*.xml')"> ? 

Your best bet is to write a shell-script that creates an XML file
index.xml of the form
<index>
<d>name001.xml</d>
<d>name002.xml</d>
etc
</index>

and then your transformation is simply:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <big-doc>
  <xsl:copy-of select="document(/index/d)"/>
  </big-doc>
</xsl:template>
> 
> 2. If 1. works would  a large number of files (000's) have an 
> adverse effect on performance ? Or once a document is 
> processed is it retained in memory or released ? Is there an 
> upper limit of elements that can be processed ? I'll be using xalan.

You will need a lot of memory. Doing it with SAX would be much more
efficient.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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