Re: [xsl] Processing a list of non-xml files in XSLT?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/08/2024 23:28, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've created a conversion process to take DITA to asciidoc that works
> pretty well overall. What I have is:
> - a folder with all the dita, ditamaps, and images in a flat structure
> - a simplified format of the map as run through the normalize process
>
> I use the simplified map to determine what files and how they should
> be organized in the final output. This map also contains information
> about images, xrefs and conref content (linked to content).
>
> My problem is that the simplified map is based upon files that are in
> the TOC. We have some situations where the writer has referenced
> topics that are not in the TOC.
>
> I want to run a list of all the dita files as a collection and another
> list of images as a collection so I can compare these to the entries
> in the map. The process works well for the dita content with this:
>
>
>
> I'm shifting to the images and tried to use the same configuration for
> images. Problem is that base-uri() wants an XML file
>
> The required item type of the first argument of fn:base-uri() is
> node(); the supplied value xs:base64Binary("") is an atomic value
>
> Is there anything I can use directly in XSL (this one stylesheet) that
> will just give me the filenames of these images? I can do some other
> preprocessing stages and build an xml file with all these images
> listed, but I would prefer to do this in this one stylesheet that is
> doing all of this heavy lifting and decision making.


XSLT 3/XPath 3 has a function uri-collection and I think with Saxon if
you use that function with e.g. ?select=(*.jpg|*.png) it gives you a
sequence of file URIs to the files without the need to process the
binary file contents.