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/
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From: Marijan Madunic [mailto:mmadunic(_at_)businessobjects(_dot_)com]
Sent: 30 June 2006 15:13
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] 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
hajduk(_at_)imag(_dot_)net
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