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On 18/03/2008, Justin Johansson <procode@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As yet I haven't explored the facility afforded by the XSLT/XPath 2 > collection function but the question posed by this thread spurs asking the > list: > > 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? Yes it can. Of course, you first need an implementation that supports a URI scheme that can scan directories. Arguably, file is legitimate for this, as browsers usually give you a directory listing if you supply a file URI that ends with a directory name. What Gestalt does it return a sequence of documents each containing a single element, which has various information about that directory entry. You could then call unparsed-text on the document-uri for that particular entry. > 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> Note that that URI is not a legitimate file URI (they may not take query parameters). Saxon is not compliant in this respect (but even if it were, there is no particular reason that this should work - the collection() function is very loosely define.
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