You can use an xsl transform
and the function document()
you wil have a stuff like
<xsl:for-each select="dir:file">
<xsl:copy-of select="document(@name)//title"/>
</xsl:for-each>
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From: "Upayavira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Reading all XML-files of one folder
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:16:40 +0200, "Mathias Wiegard"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Hi,
> > I want to make something like the users' manual of cocoon. If You know
> > its
> > sitemap then you will also know the system with book.xml.
> > Instead of using such a file I want to generate my menu items
dynamically
> > by
> > the articles (xml files) in the accordant folder, e.g. by getting a
> > "title"-XML-Element of each file in the folder.
> > Have someone done something like that or an idea how this could be done
> > in
> > an easy and effective way?
>
> That was the way I started building sites in Cocoon. You can use the
> XPathDirectoryGenerator to extract specific nodes from files in a
> specific directory.
>
> However, I found that approach to be far too complicated to manage, and
> in the end opted for a separate 'linkmap', or book.xml file, which has
> allowed my sites to grow more significantly than the previous approach
> would have allowed (e.g. dynamically building links to hierarchically
> organised pages across different levels of the hierarchy, and in
> different file folders).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Upayavira
>
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