an XQuery recipe: generating lots of documents in a single XQuery run …

• http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/XQ-Gen-XML.html – search there for “Generate all the HTML output files“!

… by putting them in a single large XML object – then use a post-processor to split this into separate files. (Alright this isn’t really a true “single XQuery run” approach. But it is close enough.)

With Saxon-HE there is no way to write to separate text files from within a true single XQuery run, but using xmlstarlet (or whatever) the mentioned post-processor is rather easy to implement:

• https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/blob/master/xml/xml_extract_files.sh
• https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/blob/master/xml/xml_extract_files.0–sample.xml