Re: [basex-talk] Adding lots of files in a defined order

Perfect! Thank you!

Jonathan

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 5:52 PM Liam R. E. Quin liam@fromoldbooks.org wrote:

On Mon, 2022-02-21 at 16:28 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote:

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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?

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