As yet I haven't explored the facility afforded by the XSLT/XPath 2
collection function but the question posed by this thread spurs asking the
list:

Can the collection function be used as a general (file system) directory
scanner for non XML files given that XSLT 2 allows the loading of non XML
documents via the unparsed-text function?

It's not unexpected but my investigation found that the (Saxon) XSLT
processor complained about the text file (containing 'the quick brown fox')
was not well-formed.

      <xsl:for-each select="collection( '?select=fox.txt')">
        <xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>
      </xsl:for-each>

Thanks in advance for your kind responses.

Justin Johansson