RE: Using Saxon 8.5 and collection() to process a directory of XML files


I now have Saxon 8.5b processing a directory of xml files and 
generating the
required html files, using the following: 

<xsl:for-each select="collection(concat($xmlDir, '?select=*.xml'))">
      <xsl:result-document href="{$outputDir}/{$fileName}.html">
        ...
      </xsl:result-document>
      <xsl:for-each select="saxon:discard-document(.)" />
</xsl:for-each>

-Am I using saxon:discard-document() correctly... Seems odd?


There's a danger Saxon will optimize it out if you use it in a context where
the result of the function (which is the same as the input) isn't used. So a
safer usage is:

<xsl:for-each select="collection(concat($xmlDir, '?select=*.xml'))">

    <xsl:for-each select="saxon:discard-document(.)">

      <xsl:result-document href="{$outputDir}/{$fileName}.html">
        ...
      </xsl:result-document>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>


or you could tag it on to the outer for-each:

 <xsl:for-each select="collection(concat($xmlDir,
'?select=*.xml'))/saxon:discard-document(.)">


-Is it possible to continue the processing should one of the 
source files
contain an error (say a parse error)?


Yes, there's a query parameter ?select=*.xml;on-error=ignore|warning|fail

(In fact, ignore isn't totally working yet: XML parser errors are reported
even if they are then ignored)

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



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