Hi,

Linda is mentioning "thousands of files"... 
It may be worthwhile to check that the files are closed and the
resources released for each iteration of the for-each loop.
Do you know if it's the case ?

My 0,02 euros.

Eric

Mike Brown wrote:
> 
> > I do have XML files that specify the filenames and paths of all the
> > documents in a specific subdirectory. Could I somehow read such a
> > filenames-file and call the document function for each of the
> > files listed, and then extract the information I want from each
> > document?
> 
> Wow, you are 90% of the way there just with your description of what you
> want. You even used the words "for each" :-)
> 
> In filenames_file.xml you could have:
> 
> <someURIs>
>   <file>file1.xml</file>
>   <file>file2.xml</file>
>   <file>http://foo/file3.xml</file>
>   <file>file://D|/dev/src/file4.xml</file>
>   <file>../../file5.xml</file>
> </someURIs>
> 
> Then in a template in your XSL you could have:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="document('filenames_file.xml')/someURIs/file/text()">
>   <xsl:variable name="current_file_root" select="document(string(.))"/>
>   <!-- the next lines are just for example -->
>   <xsl:text>&#xA;&#xA;current file: </xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   <xsl:text>&#xA;# of elements: </xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="count($current_file_root//*)"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
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