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Can I use fn:collection() to retrieve the URL of a document in a folder?

Suppose I have this XQuery:

<documents> {
    for $doc in fn:collection("file:///c:/xml?select=*.xml")
    return
        <doument URL="theDocURL">
            {$doc}
        </doument>
} </documents>

How do I assign the proper value to the URL= attribute?

You can assign values to the URL= attribute using the fn:document-uri function, shown here:

<documents> {
    for $doc in fn:collection("file:///c:/xml?select=*.xml")
    return
        <doument URL="{$doc/document-uri($doc)}">
            {$doc}
        </doument>
} </documents>

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