[xquery-talk] How to run xquery dynamically on file listing from
directory
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 17:02:58 PDT 2008
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, you can do something like running several files at once using collection().
> The caveat is that this means you are running all the files in that collection. To answer your question, you can do something like
>
> let $x: = collection("xmlfiles")
> return
> <count>{count($x)}</count>
>
Whether or not you can do this depends entirely on your implementation.
Check their documentation for the collection() function. Some
implementations provide a different way of achieving the same result.
There is no portable way to do this.
Jonathan
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