I would like to capture a sequence of elements that belong to multiple input XML files that are contained in the same directory as the XSLT document:

<xsl:variable name="allfiles" select="*.xml/descendant::testdata"/>

I am using Saxon and XSLT 2.0.

I found some documentation that suggested I could use something like this:

<xsl:for-each select="file:///path/to/directory">
<!-- process the documents -->
</xsl:for-each>

but that was not working for me. Any suggestions?

You need to use the document() or collection() functions.

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Thanks Sam, it was an error on my part. I am using

collection('file:///Users/path/to/files?select=*.xml')/descendant::testdata

and it works perfectly.