Subject: Re: [xsl] Anyone have XSLT that generates XML showing a Windows folder structure? From: "Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 14:08:18 -0000 |
FAQ, section 4 1. Accessing a directory full of xml files. Francis Norton This is a pure DOS / XML / XSLT way of creating an XML file containing directory listing. It's based on my earlier solution which didn't tolerate embedded spaces in filenames. Warning. If a file name contains the ampersand character it will fail to parse! If you need that, use a java filter to remove. For *nix users, According to the XML spec the line-parsing technique should be OS independent. So you'd change the batch file (and SED those pesky ampersands while you're at it), but no change to the XML file, and all you need to do to the XSL file is swap the '\' for a '/'...:) (a perl script is added to the end of this answer) In other words the processing-a-line-separated-file technique should be portable without change, and the specific utility should be fairly easily transportable. The solution now takes a line-separated text file and processes it into an XML file. Doing this requires two uses of XML entities, firstly a system entity to read the text file into the content of an XML element; and secondly a character entity to access the acii 10 linefeed character to parse that content. For anyone unfamiliar with system entities, run the xmlDir.bat, then see the difference between looking at xmlDir.xml in a text processor and in an xml processor like IE5. Ta-da... I was never very fond of XML entities so this was a useful exercise for me, I hope it helps others too. 1. The batch file @echo off cd > xmlDir.lst dir *.xml /b >> xmlDir.lst saxon xmlDir.xml xmlDir.xsl > xmlFiles.xml Note that the last line needs changing to call your own saxon processor (not the java version) 2. The xml file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE xmlDir [ <!ENTITY xmlDirList SYSTEM "xmlDir.lst"> ]> <xmlDir>&xmlDirList;</xmlDir> Note that this won't work until you have created the entity by running the batch file, and saving it in a location where the xml file can access it. 3. The xsl file <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <!-- root function --> <xsl:template match="/xmlDir"> <!-- create our root output element --> <xmlDir> <!-- the path is on the first line, filenames on the others --> <xsl:call-template name="file"> <!-- all the CR-LF pairs have been normalised to ascii 10, as specified in http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-line-ends --> <xsl:with-param name="path" select="substring-before(string(), ' ')" /> <xsl:with-param name="flist" select="substring-after(string(), ' ')" /> </xsl:call-template> </xmlDir> </xsl:template> <!-- process the individual files in the space-separated file list --> <xsl:template name="file"> <xsl:param name="path" /> <xsl:param name="flist" /> <xsl:if test="$flist != ''"> <!-- output the path and the first filename as one element --> <xmlFile><xsl:value-of select = "concat($path, '\', substring-before($flist, ' '))" /></xmlFile> <!-- now recurse with same path and rest of the filenames --> <xsl:call-template name="file"> <xsl:with-param name="path" select="$path" /> <xsl:with-param name="flist" select="substring-after($flist, ' ')" /> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 14:59, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hans-JC<rgen Rennau did some work in this area: > > https://www.parsqube.de/en/publications/foxpath-for-selecting-files-and-folde rs/ > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > > On 13 May 2020, at 13:56, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Oops! Correction: > > For this folder structure: > > root > persons > local > JohnDoe.xml > MarySmith.xml > remote > BillAnderson.xml > > the XSLT code outputs this XML: > > <root> > <persons> > <local> > JoeDoe.xml > MarySmith.xml > </local> > <remote> > BillAnderson.xml > </remote> > </persons> > </root> > > /Roger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:51 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Anyone have XSLT that generates XML showing a Windows folder structure? > > Hi Folks, > > 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 someone has already done this, would you mind sharing it, please? > > /Roger > > > XSL-List info and archive > EasyUnsubscribe (by email) -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
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