Is there a way to read files from the filesystem via XSL?

I have a directory of files for which I want to create an XML file using those file names.

I've done this many times in PHP but am outputting XML and using XSL to then process the XML. Trying to determine if I can do this w/o PHP in the mix.

Thanks.
Robert

You need the collection function which is available in version 2.0.

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Joe
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I did see the Collection function earlier but was under the impression that I'd have add extensions. This is now native to XSLT 2.0?

In any event, I found and tried the following example, which reads files from directory. I get a very generic error "Error! An error occurred on line 5 in /html/CollectionTest.php Error no: Error :

XSL Code:
<xsl:for-each select="collection(iri-to-uri('../images/?select=*.*'))">
<dv><xsl:value-of select="position()"/> </div>
</xsl:for-each>

The intention is simply to read the all files from the 'images' dir and output the position.

Any ideas why this might fail? How would I determine if my web host uses XSLT2.0?

Also any other references w/eamples would be appreciated!

If you are running the XSLT from inside php then I doubt you will have an XSLT 2.0 processor.

And if all you want is the filenames, not the actual contents of the file then you will probably have to write an extension function - I'm unsure how you do this in whatever XSLT processor PHP is using.

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/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Think before you post: What have you tried?

Here's the PHP function

function processXSL_UsingXML($xslToUse, $xmlToUse)
{

$xp = xslt_create();
xslt_set_error_handler($processor, "errorHandler");
xslt_set_log($xp, true);
xslt_set_log($xp, 'debugRJF.log');

# Process the XSL
$result = xslt_process($xp, $xmlToUse, $xslToUse, NULL, array());

if (!$result) handleError();
print $result;
xslt_free($xp);
}

Not sure why this pattern of firing off XSL would dicate the verion of XSL i'm using.

Any examples of using <collection> for those that have worked?

It's not how you are firing off the XSLT that dictates the version of XSLT you are using, just that there are very few XSLT processors that support XSLT 2.0, and none of them are built into PHP that I am aware of.

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/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Think before you post: What have you tried?

Hmm... guess I'm confused about this. I'm using php commands to to gather the xml/xsl and firing off the transformation. The transformation is happening on my server. Wouldn't the version of XSL that is running on server dictate the version?

My PHPINFO shows this http://share.rjfweb.com/phpinfo.php

So botton line is, if I only have support for XSLT 1.0 then I cannot use fn:collection. And there are no other alternatives?

Thanks, Sam.

The only XSLT 2.0 processors I am aware of are Saxon (java based), AltovaXML (windows only) and Gestalt (Eiffel?).

Within XSLT 1.0 there is no way to natively do what you are wanting so you are either going to have to pass the information in to the XSLT processor as a variable, or call an external function from within your XSLT.

There is some documentation on the latter here: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/xsltproc...pfunctions.php

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/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Think before you post: What have you tried?

You are using PHP to create the XSLT processor so you get the PHP implementation by default. I don't quite follow what you're attempting. Originally you said you wanted to remove PHP from the mix so I suggested using XSLT 2.0, such as Saxon. Now you seem to be trying to do it with PHP anyway. You can use Saxon from PHP I believe, see this link: http://php.net/manual/en/book.xsl.php

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Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name/

Thanks for the suggestions. I read through and tried them, however they don't work on my host server and I don't have control over the PHP configuration - i.e. ini files (as suggested in docs).

I vaguely remember trying this once before with same results. I checked PHP config - PHP Version 4.4.9 without necessary DOM extensions. http://share.rjfweb.com/phpinfo.php

Thanks again for your help.
Rob