We can use patterns made with Regular Expressions. L
This implies that the search query takes a regex, but it doesn't as your
first example shows: *.* wouldn't be legal as a regex.
Actually what it does take is a bit odd, it's designed to look like a
glob (comamnd line wildcard) for simple usage so f*.xml matches all
.xml files staring with f, not all files whose names are a sequence of
f's followed by any letter follwed by "xml", as it would be if it were
a regex.
As documented though it's really converted to a regexp by changing . to
\. and * to .* and adding ^ to the front, so you can use some regex
syntax as well, which "falls through" this conversion, but you can't
write a regex that actually uses * with its regex meaning.
The above stylesheet, collection.xsl, does not make use of an input
file. You can use some dummy input file to start it up.
as Colin said, better to stick a name="main" attribute on the template and
start it with -it main
In XSLT we can load documents with the xslt:document(), fn:doc(),
xslt:unparsed-text() and the fn:collection() functions.
You are using the prefix there to denote which specdefines each
function, but I think that's confusing use, as they are all in the same
namespace.
Only the last can use Regular Expressions and load many documents at a
time.
document() can load many documents at one time, even in xslt 1.0. Even
Given a suitable URI resolver, it can load documents not known at
xslt-compile time, such as "all xml files in a directory".
And as noted above, as implemented in saxon collection URIs are not
really regular expressions.
David
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