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