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

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

On 09/08/2024 23:52, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx wrote:
> On 09/08/2024 23:28, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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.

Looking at
https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation12/sourcedocs/collections/collecti
on-directories.html,
it might help Saxon if you not only provide the file suffix in the
select "parameter" behind the question mark but also the content-type
for the image file type you are looking at.