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Re[2]: simple method for listing directory contents?
- From: "klaus e. werner" <vatidt04 at net dot va>
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- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:40:44 +0100
- Subject: Re[2]: [xsl] simple method for listing directory contents?
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Monday, 18 February 2002 at 10:39
Deara Joerg,
thanks for your tips! I managed to get things done rather
straightforward, using XML as the output format.
klaus e. werner | vatidt04@net.va
From: Joerg Pietschmann <joerg.pietschmann@zkb.ch>
To: XSL List <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] simple method for listing directory contents?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:32:20 +0100
Message: <3C6BCA74.CA584A2E@zkb.ch>
| "klaus e. werner" <vatidt04@net.va> wrote:
| > I know need to build a simple index file, with links to all the 500+
| > docs and, if possible, references to their content ("title" and "date"
| > would be enough).
|
| This is not really a XSL question, as XSL doesn't know anything
| about files, directories or the file system.
|
| You could use a simple script (JavaScript, VB,...) which builds
| a simple XML file
| <files>
| <file>foo.xml</file>
| <file>bar.xml</file>
| ...
| <files>
| and process this with XSLT into the desired index page, perhaps
| accessing title and some other data from the XML file referred to
| with the document() function, or you could build an in-memory DOM
| tree for instant use, or produce the desired HTML directly (less
| recommended).
| Looking up info in the FileSystemObject is useful for this task
| if you want to do this from the IEx browser. Other tools, like
| traditional Unix shells provided for example by Cygwin on the
| windows plattform, have direct access to the file system.
|
| HTH
| J.Pietschmann
|
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