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> <xsl:apply-templates select="document('test.xml')//driver/meta"><xsl:sort > select="./title"/></xsl:apply-templates> > > What if I have a huge collection of XML files. > I certainly do not want to type in all these names in an construction like > the above one. > I would like to use some sort of wildcard. You can't. The document() function can take a list of filenames by way of string values of nodes in a node-set passed in as the first argument, though. So you could put the file list in XML... <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- filelist.xml --> <filelist> <file>test1.xml</file> <file>test2.xml</file> <file>test3.xml</file> </filelist> ...and reference the file elements in it... <xsl:variable name="files" select="document('filelist.xml')/filelist/file"/> ...then let document() pick out the string values and return the unified node-set of all the documents in the list. You can do with the node-set as you please.. <xsl:apply-templates select="document($files)"> <xsl:sort select="title"/> </xsl:apply-templates> But there's no way to do file globbing, as I think it's called. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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