Hi Roger,

There are too-many characters that are allowed in a directory-name that
will break the syntax for an XML element name:

seems like any character except:  (0 to 31)!codepoints-to-string(.),  \, /
, ?,:, *, ", <, >, |

So you can have commas, whitespace (consecutive spaces), %, ;, +, &, etc.
For reference see for example this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file    ,

Therefore, a safer way to represent a directory structure would be to make
the file and directory names values, not names.

Even in this case, the & (ampersand) character must be watched for and
escaped properly.

Also, given an XML file in this format, that is believed to represent a
directory, may actually not represent a real windows filesystem directory,
as there are reserved names that have special meaning and are not allowed
to be used:

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also avoid these
names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt

One more thing: you might have a problem if the length of a full
filepath exceeds 250.

HTH, :)

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:52 AM Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Do you have XSLT code that does this: Given a root folder, show all the
> subfolders and files within it, repeat for each subfolder.
>
> Example, for this folder structure:
>
> root
>     persons
>         local
>             JohnDoe.xml
>             MarySmith.xml
>         remote
>             BillAnderson.xml
>
> the XSLT code outputs this XML:
>
> <root>
>      <persons>
>           <local>
>               <john>JoeDoe.xml</john>
>               <mary>MarySmith.xml</mary>
>         </local>
>         <remote>
>              <bill>BillAnderson.xml</bill>
>        </remote>
>     </persons>
> </root>
>
> If someone has already done this, would you mind sharing it, please?
>
> /Roger