"dir" has all sorts of optional parameters you can set to customize the output
-- opening a command window and typing “dir /?” will get you a full list of
them.
For example, a batch file in my folder "html_pending" containing this single
line: dir > list.txt generates a text file called list.txt that contains
this:
Volume in drive G is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 80F7-BAEC
Directory of G:\LIB\Special Collections\Digital Projects\EAD\html_pending
01/14/2019 04:21 PM <DIR> .
01/14/2019 04:21 PM <DIR> ..
01/15/2019 08:44 AM 18 aaa_list.bat
01/15/2019 08:44 AM 0 aaa_list.txt
01/11/2019 02:36 PM 60,282 arents_tour.htm
01/11/2019 02:36 PM 66,594 arents_xmas.htm
01/14/2019 04:16 PM 12,836 british_celanese.htm
01/14/2019 04:21 PM 19,731 fineman_weinshenker.htm
01/07/2019 04:25 PM 655,616 huntington_ah.htm
01/14/2019 04:18 PM 11,875 kay_j.htm
01/08/2019 03:07 PM 29,355 plast_hof.htm
01/14/2019 04:19 PM 12,341 vonbayros_f.htm
01/08/2019 02:22 PM 60,151 wurzburg_g.htm
11 File(s) 928,799 bytes
2 Dir(s) 7,891,116,032 bytes free
Using the /B (for “bare”) parameter: dir /B > list.txt you get just the
file names:
aaa_list.bat
aaa_list.txt
arents_tour.htm
arents_xmas.htm
british_celanese.htm
fineman_weinshenker.htm
huntington_ah.htm
kay_j.htm
plast_hof.htm
vonbayros_f.htm
wurzburg_g.htm
Using a wildcard you can list only files of a specific file type, so dir /B
*.htm > list.txt yields this:
arents_tour.htm
arents_xmas.htm
british_celanese.htm
fineman_weinshenker.htm
huntington_ah.htm
kay_j.htm
plast_hof.htm
vonbayros_f.htm
wurzburg_g.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Syd Bauman s(_dot_)bauman(_at_)northeastern(_dot_)edu
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 4:41 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] bat file creation based on xsl /xml
Michele may have hit the nail on the head, here, but some other issues are
raised.
0) I don't think the @version and @indent attributes of <xsl:output>
make much sense when method=text. (And I'll ask that wiser folks
than me post a correction if I'm wrong on that.)
1) The OP's XSLT is not well-formed. (There is an extraneous end-tag
for <xsl:variable> lying around.)
2) I'm not 100% sure what `dir` does in Windows, but I'll bet it
would list the files that end in '.xml'. This program also tries
to *read* and *parse* those files. So whereas `dir` will happy
list a file that is not really XML so long as it has a .xml
extension, this program will entirely fail if any one of the
files found in the same directory as the XSLT program ends in
'.xml' but is not well-formed XML. (Which may, of course, be the
desired behavior. In which case one might be better off using
`xmlwf`. :-)
3) This program spits out the URL of each selected file, not its
name (or path & name). On my (GNU/Linux system running Saxon 9
HE) that means that each file's output line will start with
"file:". And it also has implications for character escaping
(i.e., what happens if a space or solidus or whatever is in the
file's name -- here you get %-sign escaping, but I doubt `dir`
does that).
4) This program reads in an input file, but then summarily ignores
it when choosing the directory to list. I can't help but wonder
if OP wants a list of the .xml files in the same directory as the
XSLT program (which is what this program gives me when I run it
w/ Saxon), or would prefer a list of the .xml files in the same
directory as the input document.
=========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>
----- XSLT program file's directory -----</xsl:text>
<xsl:for-each select="collection('.?select=*.xml')">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>

----- XML file's directory -----</xsl:text>
<xsl:for-each select="collection( concat( replace( base-uri(/),
'/[^/]+$',''),'?select=*.xml'))">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If I read this right, it looks like you just want to generate a list
of the XML files in a directory, is that correct? If you’re in a
windows enviroment the “dir” command will do what you want.
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