RE: [xsl] Using Saxon 8.5 and collection() to process a directory of XML files

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Should be possible. You can get the URI of each individual source document
using document-uri().

Many Saxon extensions were developed because I needed them myself. This one
was created to help me organize and build a catalogue for my collection of
XSLT test data, perhaps 8000 files or so. This certainly needed to obtain
the URI/filename of each of the separate input files.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Welch Andrew (ELS) [mailto:A.Welch@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 August 2005 13:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Using Saxon 8.5 and collection() to process a 
> directory of XML files
> 
> 
> I've just had a requirement to process a directory of XML 
> files, generating
> 10 output files per source XML file and placing them in a 
> folder named the
> same as the input file.  Mike mentioned in his annoucement 
> email for Saxon
> 8.5 something along these lines, so I want to try and achieve 
> it all in a
> single stylesheet, rather then needing the host language.
> 
> So, given a folder of source XML files:
> 
> 001.xml
> 002.xml
> ...
> 999.xml
> 
> The result of tranform should be a folder per XML file, named 
> the same as
> the XML file, with the 10 ouput files within it:
> 
> [001] <- folder
>   first.html
>   second.html
>   ...
> [002]
>   first.html
>   second.html
>   ....
> 
> ...
> [999]
>   first.html
>   etc
> 
> I believe it's possible now to use the collection() function to get a
> sequence of the input XML files.  Is it possible to get the 
> filenames so
> that I can create the corresponding output folder?
> 
> This is the code I think I need once I have the collection 
> bit sorted (which
> will wrap this code):
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="for $i in $outputFileNames return $i">
>     <xsl:result-document href="{$dir}/{$folderName}/{.}.html">
>         ....	
>     </xsl:result-document>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> $outputFileNames is the sequence of the 10 filenames eg 
> 'first', 'second'
> and so on.  $dir is the output folder.  $folderName needs to 
> come from the
> filename of the input XML - not sure if this is possible yet.
> 
> Once this is ready, I think the end user should be able to run this
> stylesheet (with the correct path parameters but without any 
> input XML) to
> generate all of the necessary files.  It would be great to do 
> all this in
> the stylesheet, rather than requiring the host language to 
> perform each
> transform separately.
> 
> My question is - is this possible?
> 
> cheers
> andrew