[xquery-talk] How to run xquery dynamically on file listing from
directory
Andrew Welch
andrew.j.welch at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 11:33:05 PDT 2008
On 11/04/2008, Kevin Grover <kevin at kevingrover.net> wrote:
> I feel for you on this. It's taken me weeks to figure anything out.
> The crux if it is that the 'collection()' function is implementation
> dependent.
>
> I've been trying with saxon for a long while and could not find any
> documentation or examples. After many attempts at searching (Google),
> and some dumb luck (I searched the main saxon documentation toc for
> collection), I found saxon's documentation page:
>
> http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/collections.html
>
> Still, no examples, but better.
For the archives then:
http://ajwelch.blogspot.com/2006/11/using-collection-and-saxondiscard.html
If you are using Saxon then you may also need to use
saxon:discard-document() when processing large collections of XML -
otherwise each one will be held in memory (if that applies to XQuery?)
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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