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Re: [xsl] XSLT collection function to get filenames

2008-03-18 06:59:10
Justin Johansson wrote:

Can the collection function be used as a general (file system) directory
scanner for non XML files given that XSLT 2 allows the loading of non XML
documents via the unparsed-text function?

It's not unexpected but my investigation found that the (Saxon) XSLT
processor complained about the text file (containing 'the quick brown fox')
was not well-formed.

      <xsl:for-each select="collection( '?select=fox.txt')">
        <xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>
      </xsl:for-each>

The collection function http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection returns a sequence of nodes (node()*) so it seems to be meant for loading XML documents and not plain text.

Also note that the interpretation of the argument is implementation dependant.
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        Martin Honnen
        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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