Adding lots of files in a defined order

On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 16:28 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: > I have 929 files with names like these: > > 01-Gen-001.xml > > I would like to add them to a new database in the same order that I > see if > I do $ ls in that directory,

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 5:52 PM Liam R. E. Quin <liam at fromoldbooks.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 16:28 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: > > I have 929 files with names like these: > > > > 01-Gen-001.xml > > > > I would like to add them to a new database in the same order that I > > see if > > I do $ ls in that directory, > > Are you doing this from within XQuery? > sort( > file:list($dir)[matches(., '\.xml$')] > ) ! db:add($db, doc(.), .) > > maybe? > > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. > Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org > >