[xquery-talk] How to run xquery dynamically on file listing fromdirectory

[Michael Kay]

>Is there anyway to do something like:
    for $x in collection("xmlfiles")
where 'xmlfiles' is a subdirectory containing the actual xml files I want to

use?  I would need to know the exact syntax, as this is all new to me.


As others have said, the interpretation of the URI passed to collection() is
very much processor-dependent. Altova have their own XQuery processor, and I
would imagine it treats collection() in the same way as their XSLT
processor: in their 2007 product that's effectively a null implementation,
in the 2008 version it does roughly the same as Saxon: you can either
specify a directory name, or the name of an XML file that acts as a catalog
of the collection. IIRC, they don't provide the ability to filter the
contents of the directory.

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