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I realize this is not a fully-XSL reply, but if you're already on the commandline, you might find it easier to use some tool other than XSLT to generate a directory listing. When I want to operate on the list of files in a directory, I typically start with `xml ls` (called `xmlstarlet ls` on some distributions), and process the output thereof with my XSLT to mimic file selection and get the output I want. I leave it to more experienced XSLTers to address the pros & cons of an all-XSLT solution vs this sort of assembly line. I developed this mechanism before using XSLT 2 was a reasonable option for me, and am happy enough with it I haven't really looked at switching very seriously (but could certainly be convinced). Something like --------- fns4sahoo.xslt --------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/dir"> <files> <xsl:apply-templates select="f[contains(@n,'.html')]"/> </files> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="f"> <filename> <xsl:value-of select="@n"/> </filename> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> --------- end fns4sahoo.xslt --------- when used (along with the xmlstarlet and xsltproc commandline tools) as follows: $ cd /tmp/ $ xmlstarlet ls | xsltproc fns4sahoo.xslt - > fns4sahoo.xml produces --------- fns4sahoo.xml --------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <files> <filename>ch.html</filename> <filename>oops.this.html.file.too.txt</filename> <filename>td.doc.html</filename> <filename>td1.doc.html</filename> </files> --------- end fns4sahoo.xml --------- Two things worth noting: * I stuck in a root <files> element for you, which was not mentioned in the original post * My code erroneously picks up any file that has ".html" in the filename, not only files that end in ".html", because I was being lazy in the selection in my stylesheet (in the predicate in the <apply-templates>). Obviously this isn't very hard to fix. Also, of course, David Lee's `xmlsh` environment probably does this sort of stuff in its sleep. Hope this is at least interesting, if not helpful :-)
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