Re: [xsl] Reading multiple documents with wild cards

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/collections.xml

Does that answer your question?

The order in which the documents are read may be OS-specific, so you 
might want to sort the documents in a wildcard collection by some 
criterion such as the base name.

And the semantics of the select argument is implementation-dependent.

Gerrit


On 2011-07-01 11:35, Jacobus Reyneke wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Just curious to know if there is a way to load multiple documents in
> XSLT using a wild card. In fairy land this would be something like:
> <xsl:for-each select="document('*.xml')">
> .... do some cool stuff with each doc
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> A post at http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200108/msg00545.html
> indicates that it cannot be done, but this post is 10 years old.
>
> Searching the web for this turns out to be a little tricky, since
> there are many results on 'document', 'xslt' and 'wildcard', but
> completely unrelated to this type of problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Jacobus

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