Re: multiple XML and wildcards

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

> <xsl:apply-templates select="document('test.xml')//driver/meta"><xsl:sort 
> select="./title"/></xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> What if I have a huge collection of XML files.
> I certainly do not want to type in all these names in an construction like 
> the above one.
> I would like to use some sort of wildcard.

You can't. The document() function can take a list of filenames by way of
string values of nodes in a node-set passed in as the first argument,
though. So you could put the file list in XML...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- filelist.xml -->
<filelist>
  <file>test1.xml</file>
  <file>test2.xml</file>
  <file>test3.xml</file>
</filelist>

...and reference the file elements in it...

<xsl:variable name="files" select="document('filelist.xml')/filelist/file"/>

...then let document() pick out the string values and return the unified
node-set of all the documents in the list. You can do with the node-set
as you please..

<xsl:apply-templates select="document($files)">
  <xsl:sort select="title"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

But there's no way to do file globbing, as I think it's called.

   - Mike
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