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Subject: Re: XSLT collection function to get filenames
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:58:34 +0100

Justin Johansson wrote:

Can the collection function be used as a general (file system) directory
scanner for non XML files given that XSLT 2 allows the loading of non XML
documents via the unparsed-text function?

It's not unexpected but my investigation found that the (Saxon) XSLT
processor complained about the text file (containing 'the quick brown fox')
was not well-formed.

      <xsl:for-each select="collection( '?select=fox.txt')">
        <xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>
      </xsl:for-each>

The collection function http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection returns a sequence of nodes (node()*) so it seems to be meant for loading XML documents and not plain text.

Also note that the interpretation of the argument is implementation dependant. --

	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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Re: XSLT collection function to get filenames, (continued)
- Martin Honnen - 16 Mar 2008 13:57:35 -0000
  - Martin Honnen - 16 Mar 2008 14:05:26 -0000
  - Arno H.P. Reuser - 16 Mar 2008 14:09:38 -0000
- Justin Johansson - 18 Mar 2008 13:50:44 -0000
  - Martin Honnen - 18 Mar 2008 13:59:06 -0000 <=
  - Michael Kay - 18 Mar 2008 13:59:30 -0000
  - David Carlisle - 18 Mar 2008 14:03:24 -0000
    - Andrew Welch - 18 Mar 2008 14:23:22 -0000
    - David Carlisle - 18 Mar 2008 15:11:13 -0000

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