> Now I need a way to discover the contents of a directory (files and
> other directorys). So far I have:

You can get a list of all the files in the directory and
subdirectories by doing:

<xsl:for-each select="collection('file:///path/to/dir/?select=*;recurse=yes;on-error=ignore')">
  <xsl:value-of select="document-uri(.)"/>


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