dynamically concatenating xml files with ant and xslt

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Has anyone found a simpler way to achieve this dynamic discovery of what files to merge in XSLT? It's not surprising that XSLT cannot read directories directly, but I was hoping to find a simpler way to pass in a list of file names than through another xml file.

Dynamic discovery and processing of XML files can be done using XPath 2/0/XSLT 2.0. More specifically, one has to use the XPath 2.0 collection() function.

For details, see my answer to this question.

So, if ANT can use a suitable XSLT 2.0 processor, (I would recommend using Saxon), the problem has a complete solution, using the standard collection() function.