One more comment.

document() doesn't handle missing files very well - it raises a parse time
error. First time I got this I admit that I had expected it to just
gracefully gloss over and continue (shows how much I read the docs then).

I'm not saying that this behaviour is wrong but it's a bit annoying at times
and to my mind makes the XSLT a bit fragile where this particular method is
concerned.

Chris.

"dSchwartz" <schwartz@c...> wrote in message
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What I think I'm looking for is a way (in XSL stylesheet) to get the
contents of a directory.  How can this be accomplished?

more detailed:

/root
 index.aspx
 xsl_style.xsl
 /xml
  newsletter_001.xml
  newsletter_002.xml
  newsletter_xxx.xml


now i want to use xsl_style.xsl to pull two attributes from the root
element of each and every file in the xml directory.  Something like
this:

for (each file in xml AS xmlFile)
 <xsl:value-of select="document(xmlFile)//newsletter[@title]" />
 <xsl:value-of select="document(xmlFile)//newsletter[@date]" />


how do i create that loop?  I have to do this without a file that
contains a list of the files in the xml directory, so i need to
dynamically get the contents of the xml directory!

Thanks for your time