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RE: using collection()

Subject: RE: using collection()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 02:56:48 +0100
using collection
collection() is defined in the specs in a fairly abstract way, recognizing
that different implementations will have different concepts of a collection,
particularly in an XML database environment. The Saxon implementation has
moved on considerably since the book was written, and up-to-date information
can be found at
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/functions/intro/fn_collection.html

(It can now, anyway. I was embarrassed to discover that the documentation
there wasn't up to date, but this is now fixed.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marijan Madunic [mailto:mmadunic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 June 2006 15:13
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  using collection()
> 
> In an earlier post I read with interest Michael Kay saying using the
> collection() to mass validate a set of documents. This piqued 
> my interest and went into my 2 WROX books written by M.K. 
> himself to read up on this function. No real examples but I 
> think I get it, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> I could do a for-each that will parse a set of docs of 
> unknown filenames (size inconsequential) and lets say return 
> the value/copy of the second node and the documents name into 
> a result-document. If this is true then I can toss out my ANT 
> build to run through a directory and output a well-formed XML 
> doc that contains the names of the XML files. A 2 step 
> process turned into inline. I've needed to do this on many 
> occasions and always wanted to do it inline.
> 
> Please tell me it's true
> 
> Marijan Madunic
> Have XSLT Will Transform
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