I would recommend a general purpose Perl script which outputs an XML
representation of the directory (optionally recursive).  This directory.xml
then can be used for any/all file processing from within XSL.

An example would be.

<directory location="file:///C:/">
  <file name="foo" ext="xml" createdate="blah".../>
  ...
  <directory location="file:///C:/DOS">
  ...
  </directory>
</directory>

Once this file exists, you can use the document() function to process
files/directories as you like.

I actually wrote this script for my last project.  Took about an hour to get it
right.

-Mitch


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Linda van den Brink writes:
>  > Unfortunalely I don't know any programming/scripting languages at all,
>  > except for a bit of Omnimark. I wanted to know if could be done with XSL
>  > itself. If not, maybe I'd best ask my colleague for a perl script?
>
> XSL has no access to the directory listing. I am sure Java folk could
> get at that using extensions such as James Clark allows, but natively
> in XSL no can do.
>
> I cannot see how to solve your problem without *some* kind of
> scripting. even doing a file list into a file and then mangling that
> to a valid XML takes some minimal scripting.
>
> A Perl script would be a few minutes work, if you have a
> suitably-equipped colleague
>
> Sebastian
>
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