Thanks for the XSL tutorial Chris ;-) It’s certainly a lot easier than trying to remember the arcane syntax of regexps!

1) opened the master book list in Firefox
2) selected the table containing the links to the PDF and executed “View Selection Source”
3) copied/pasted the table body in a file named doc1.xml
4) removed some garbage with the following command: grep -e tbody -e to_pdf doc1.xml | sed ’s/%2F/\//’ > doc2.xml
5) applied the XSL transformation that you find below to the file named doc2.xml (I used XML Notepad 2007 for that)
6) copied/pasted the output in another file and did some editing (e.g. removed duplicates of mkdir, changed the name of 3 files having a too long name…)

HTH
Chris

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/tbody">
  <xsl:for-each select="a">
    mkdir <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'.')"/>
    <br/>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:for-each select="a">
    wget -nv
         http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'&amp;')"/>
         -O "<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'.')"/>/<xsl:value-of select="translate(substring-after(@title,'PDF file of '),'*/','')"/>.pdf"
    <br/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

thanks for the sharing.

Thank you for the feedback! I corrected the script. BTW, tomorrow I should be able to post the XLS code… So, stay tuned ;-)

Cheers,
Chris