Article:		Getting Started with XQuery
Subject:		Iterating Through Files
Date:		2005-03-27 08:25:57
From:		Bob DuCharme
Response to: Iterating Through Files
You could try it, but if it works with one XQuery implementation it won't necessarily work with another. From http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection: "This function provides a facility for users to work with a collection of documents which may be contained in a directory or rows of a Relational table or other implementation-specific construct. An implementation may also use external variables to identify external resources, but fn:collection() provides functionality not provided by external variables." So the implementation has some leeway. Because I love the name func-collection so much, I will also add the URL http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007RQ9/103-8915257-7975822

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• Iterating Through Files
  2005-11-09 21:23:18 scam [Reply]
  
  But even if that does work, is there any guarantee that the query would be starting afresh for each new file? Becoz i need to do that. I need the query to execute through each xml file in a directory (even under subdirectories of this directory). but it should consider each file as a new beginning. any help on this would be most welcome. please? Thanks a million anyways. :)