[xquery-talk] Query Through Multiple Files

[Liam Quin]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:24:29PM -0500, Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> for $read in doc("*.xml")//div, but the error I got is

You probably need to use an XQuery collection; however, the
way this works varied between products, so it would depend on
which XQuery implementation you were using.

It is possible to query multiple files portably if you know
their names -- e.g.
    for $boy in (
        doc("john.xml"),
	doc("ringo.xml"),
	doc("george.xml"),
	doc("paul.xml))

	return $boy//hair/colour


Liam

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