The collection() function is defined to return nodes, so it's not directly
suitable for unparsed text (or binary) files.

With the Saxon implementation, however, you could if you wanted write a
CollectionURIResolver that reads unparsed text files and wraps the text in a
document node before returning it.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Johansson [mailto:procode@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 18 March 2008 14:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  XSLT collection function to get filenames
> 
> 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