Hi George,
At 08:59 AM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
Executing XPath over a set of files it is already possible using the
Saxon 9 collection function. For example
collection('.?select=*.xsd;on-error=ignore')/*
will return the root elements from all the *.xsd files from the
directory holding the current file and will ignore errors if some
*.xsd file is not wellformed XML.
Yes, I have used this on occasion.
As I have used Schematron for similar purposes (as a querying
application not a means of validation).
What I'm looking for now is an option that would allow me, with very
minimal overhead (i.e., no Schematron or XQuery file creation, no
Scenario setup) run an XPath over an arbitrary set of files defined
as a folder in a project, in a very ad-hoc way.
Many if not most of my projects already end up with utility XQuery
and/or Schematron files for this purpose. But something more
accessible from the menus would also be easier for beginners to find and use.
Even duplicating functionalities found elsewhere, IMHO, anything that
makes it easier for beginners (including editorial staff who are
nervous about XQuery but who know more XPath than they pretend) is in
principle a good thing, especially when it sets up a learning
feedback loop (with XPath in this case). And I bet people (even we
experts) would use this feature. :-)
Adding in oXygen support for some default collections as Florent
suggested looks like a nice idea and we recorded it on our issues
tracking system.
Once this is in place, I bet implementing a widget such as I've
described would be a proverbial piece of cake.
Thanks again,
Wendell
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