RE: Merging of Files According To A List Using Collect

Your regular expression

'^[\r\n]'

looks wrong. Try

'(\r?\n)+'

or more simply

'\s+'

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Sese [mailto:jeferson.sese@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 June 2008 11:02
> To: XSL List List
> Subject:  Merging of Files According To A List Using Collection
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file that list of ids that is used to determine to 
> order of merging of some file:
> 
> id1
> id2
> id3
> 
> The files that need to merged has a structure like:
> 
> <div id="id1">
> 	<!-- some content -->
> </div>
> 
> I'm merging them using the collection() function in this xsl file:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  
> version="2.0" xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/" 
> xmlns:xs="http:// www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> 	<xsl:param name="dir" as="xs:string" 
> select="'file:///Users/jeffsese/ 
> RND/Berichtigungsliste/Merging/Ostraka'"/>
> 	<xsl:template name="main" exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
> 		<div type="Papyri">
> 			<xsl:for-each select="for $x in 
> collection(concat($dir,'? 
> select=*.xml;recurse=yes;on-error=ignore')) return 
> saxon:discard- document($x)">
> 				<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 		</div>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> How can I make the insertion follow the order that is 
> indicated in my text file? I tried this but I can't get any output:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="id" as="xs:string*" 
> select="tokenize(unparsed-text ($pathOfTextFile, 'UTF-8'), 
> '^[\r\n]')"/> <xsl:for-each select="$id">
> 	<xsl:variable name="myId" as="xs:string" select="."/>
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="collection(concat($dir,'? 
> select=*.xml;recurse=yes;on-error=ignore'))/div[@id=$myId]"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Jeff