Re: [xsl] Anyone have XSLT that generates XML showing a Windows folder structure?

["John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/05/2020 13:52, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do you have XSLT code that does this: Given a root folder, show all the subfolders and files within it, repeat for each subfolder.
>
> Example, for this folder structure:
>
> root
>      persons
>          local
>              JohnDoe.xml
>              MarySmith.xml
>          remote
>              BillAnderson.xml
>
> the XSLT code outputs this XML:
>
> <root>
>       <persons>
>            <local>
>                <john>JoeDoe.xml</john>
>                <mary>MarySmith.xml</mary>
>          </local>
>          <remote>
>               <bill>BillAnderson.xml</bill>
>         </remote>
>      </persons>
> </root>

If you have the EXPath File module available, the XSLT code is pretty 
simple. But there is a problem you will have to face, that folder names 
need not necessarily be valid NCNames, and thus not valid as the names 
of elements. For example what if the folder name contains spaces?


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