Re: [xsl] how to test the existence of a file on the hard disk ?

["Paulo Henrique S. Bermejo" <bermejo at eps dot ufsc dot br>]

Stephane,

Maybe I can to help.
Exist a function XPath that become possible to acess documents. The name is
"document(file)".
This case, to acess a document in a variable you should:
<xsl:variable name="meu_documento_xml"
select="document(path/document.xml)"/>
I don't know as you can to certify if file exists, but I think that is begin
good.

Cheers,

Paulo Henrique Bermejo
University Federal of Santa Catarina - Florianópolis/SC
Brazil

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephane.Le-Deaut@alcatel.fr
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 6:12 AM
Subject: [xsl] how to test the existence of a file on the hard disk ?




Hello all,

I want to check if a file exists on the hard disk with XSL.
I tried this way without success :

<xsl:variable name="delivery_File"
                          select="c:/XML/nameOfFile"/>

<xsl:choose>

         <!-- we did not find the deliveryFile in this directory  -->
         <xsl:when test="not($delivery_File)">
                    ............
         </xsl:when>
          <!-- we find -->
          <xsl:otherwise>
                  ...........
          </xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

My procedure XSL never goes in <xsl:otherwise> even if the file exists.

Is it possible with XSL ?
Is anyone knows a solution ?

Thanks in advance



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