Here's a revised attempt at a fileutils package based on comments from the last attempt. I still haven't addressed the notion of making delete, copy, move apply to directories. I may have missed other comments as well, apologies.

<p:library xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" xmlns:cxf="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/fileutils" xmlns:ml="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/marklogic" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <div> <h1>Fileutils Library</h1> <h2>Version 1.0</h2> <p>The steps defined in this library provide information about files and the ability to manipulate them. All implementations are required to support file: scheme URIs. Support for other schemes is implementation-defined. </p> <p>All <code>href</code> attributes are made absolute with respect to the element on which they are specified.</p> </div> </p:documentation>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>cxf:info</code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:directory></code>, <code>&lt;c:file></code>, or <code>&lt;c:other></code> (implementations may also return more specific types, e.g., <code>&lt;c:fifo></code> or <code>&lt;c:dev></code>). If the document doesn't exist, an empty sequence is returned. The document element of the result, if there is one, will have <code>readable</code>, <code>writable</code>, <code>hidden</code>, <code>last-modified</code>, and <code>size</code> attributes. The <code>readable</code>, <code>writable</code> and <code>hidden</code> attributes are boolean and are only present if they are true. The <code>last-modified</code> attribute returns the last-modified time in UTC. The <code>size</code> attribute returns the size of the file; it is absent for directories and other types that have no meaningful size.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:info"> <p:output port="result" sequence="true"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>cxf:touch</code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute URI of the touched file. The step fails if the file does not exist and cannot be created.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:touch"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>cxf:tempfile</code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute URI of a temporary file. The temporary file is guaranteed not to already exist when <code>cxf:tempfile</code> is called. The file is created in the directory specified by the <code>href</code>. The step fails if the directory does not exist.</p> <p>If the <code>delete-on-exit</code> option (a boolean) is true, then the temporary file will automatically be deleted when the processor terminates.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:tempfile"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> <p:option name="delete-on-exit"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>cxf:delete</code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute URI of the deleted file. The step fails if the file does not exist or if it cannot be deleted.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:delete"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>&lt;cxf:mkdir></code> step creates a directory with the name spacified in the "href" option. If the name includes more than one directory component, all of the intermediate components are created. The path separator is implementation-defined. Returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute filename of the directory created. The step fails if the directory cannot be created.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:mkdir"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>&lt;cxf:copy></code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute URI of the target. The step fails if the file represented by <code>href</code> does not exist or if it cannot be copied to the specified target.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:copy"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> <p:option name="target" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>The <code>&lt;cxf:move></code> step returns a <code>&lt;c:result></code> containing the absolute URI of the target. The step fails if the file represented by the <code>href</code> does not exist or if it cannot be copied to the specified target; the source file is deleted if the copy succeeds.</p> </p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxf:move"> <p:output port="result" primary="false"/> <p:option name="href" required="true"/> <p:option name="target" required="true"/> </p:declare-step>

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</p:library>

Be seeing you, norm