Thanks Vangeli,

So let me get this straight. Can I write:

<dir:directory xmlns:dir="http://apache.org/cocoon/directory/2.0";
   name="the/dir/" sort="name" reverse="false">
 <dir:file name="*.xml">
   <dir:xpath query="*"/>
 </dir:file>
</dir:directory>

to get all the contents of all files in the/directory? (I'm sorry but
I'm ignorant about xpath)

Then the question is how do I put this in a forrest's aggregation. Or
I don't need an aggregation if I use this?

--Vassilis

On 3/3/07, Evangelos Vlachogiannis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Vasili,

I think you need Xpathdirectory Generator
(http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/xpathdirectory-generator.html). I
hope this is included in forrest..
Then you just have a root element (elements) and call an xpath
expression to include what ever elements you need from xmls in dir.

hope that helps,
Vangelis

Vassilis Koutavas wrote:
> What is the right way to create one aggregated xml file from all the
> xml files in a directory?
> I think I need to use map:aggregate, map:part, and dir:directory in my
> sitemap.xml, but I don't quite understand how to put them together. I
> don't know how many files will be in the directory, thus I don't know
> how many parts the aggregation will have.
>
> Let's say that in my xdocs I have the directory called "the/dir/" in
> which there are a number of xml files, and I want to create a file
> called "the-list.xml" (in the same direcory) which will contain the
> contents of all the xml files in that directory, under a common
> element called "elements". After I have this I know how to transform
> it using an xsl, and produce the final html file.
>
> Best

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