Re: Directory listing, as xml file

2008/6/1 Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Any suggestions how this might be done (mostly) with xslt?
>
> I think that all three currently-available XSLT 2.0 processors allow you to
> do
>
> <xsl:for-each select="collection('file:///temp/dir')">
>  <xi:include href="document-uri(.)"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> though it's a bit painful as it's likely to involve actually parsing each of
> the documents in the collection, which is of course unnecessary if you only
> want the names. Also it will give you an absolute URI rather than a relative
> one.

This is the way I've done it 95% of the time (with
saxon:discard-document to prevent memory issues)

On the odd occasion where parsing the XML is overly time consuming
I've just called out to Java from Saxon - I don't have the code to
hand to cut and paste into the email but it's simple enough.

Some code is here:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/200607/msg00568.html

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Andrew Welch
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