Hi,
Does anyone know how (if) this can be done:

I use asp (vbscript), XML and XSLT to generate HTML output to browsers. One this page I need to list files in a directory on the server. If this was a asp (classic) page I´d simply do this using FileSystemObject, but how do I go about to list the files in XSLT?

I use xsl:addParameter often to pass values to my XSL pages, but in this case where the number of filenames are unknown I cannot see that this is an option.

Any pointers or ideas? Anything is very much appreciated.

/Micke

You can construct an XML document containing the list of filenames and pass that XML document as a parameter.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Michael Kay, a very big thank you from snowy Sweden. I didn´t know that was possible - I´ll check into this immediately. Again, thanks!

:)

Seems I don´t understand how to do this anyway...

If I simply create a node set in a variable and pass it to my XSL using addParameter in vbscript, and catch it inside XSL with xsl:param, then I cannot extract the different file names since the node set now seems to be treated as any text string inside XSL?

If I do:
<xsl:value-of select="$filesXML" />

I get:
<file_name>file1.doc</file_name><file_name>file2.doc</file_name>

And if I try:
<xsl:value-of select="$filesXML/file_name[1]" />
Or other ways to try to get node values, I get the error:

msxml4.dll error '80004005'
Reference to variable or parameter 'filesXML' must evaluate to a node list.

I´ve spent hours googling around for pointers, but I simply cannot get this to work.

I´ve tried using 'msxsl:node-set' as well, but without any luck :(

Any pointers? I´m tearing my hair out over this one (soon going bald...).

It looks to me as if you are passing in a string containing unparsed XML, rather than a tree containing parsed XML.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

That was indeed it. Making sure I sent a parsed xml fragment and using the msxsl:node-set extension did it.

A big thank you again