RE: [xml-dev] Several external entities in an XML

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

You can't do it using entities. I would suggest using an XSLT 2.0 transformation with the collection() function. The interpretation of collection URIs is implementation dependent, but the following will work in Saxon:

 

<doc>

  <?includedir file:///c:/xmldir/*.xml?>

</doc>

 

then

 

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction(includedir)">

  <xsl:copy-of select="collection(.)"/>

</xsl:template>

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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From: Jonathan Ceballos Rodriguez [mailto:jceballosrodriguez@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 February 2008 11:00
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Several external entities in an XML

Hi,

I've a problem. I need to use a single XML which include the content of several XML files.
But I don't the name of the files. I just only know that they're in a directory ("/XMLs/*.xml").
I wold like to know if there's a way to import/include into a single XML file several XML files as entities, using wildcards or referencing a directory to include all the files inside it.

Could anyone help me to achieve my objective?

Thank you very much.

Greetings.

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Jonathan Ceballos Rodriguez