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File Functions
For the functions in this table, any filename can be started with ‘http://’ or ‘file://’. A query string starting with ? can be appended to a URL too. |
doc(“data.xml”) returns the document node for the file data.xml. Further node paths can be added to it. For example, doc(“data.xml”)//a returns all ‘a’ nodes in the document. |
doc-available(“data.xml”) returns true if data.xml exists and can be returned as a document node. |
collection(“s*.xml”) returns a sequence of document nodes for files with names starting with s. |
uri-collection(“s*.xml”) returns a sequence of URI strings for files with names starting with s, ie. their file names. |
unparsed-text(“data.dat”) returns a string representation of the content of the file data.dat. |
unparsed-text-lines(“data.dat”) returns a sequence of strings that are lines of content within the file data.dat. |
unparsed-text-available(“data.dat”) returns true if the file data.dat is available to be called within unparsed-text(). |
environment-variable(“APPDATA”) returns the value of a system environment variable “APPDATA”. |
available-environment-variables() returns a sequence of names of the system environment variables. |