Re: Implementing recursion (Was Re: Char node-type)

[Richard Light <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20001124042119.1885.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dimitre
Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> writes

>Will it not be simpler just to use SAXON -- it recognises tail
>recursion and implements it using iteration -- therefore no stack
>overflow will occur.

Thanks - I didn't know that.

I must say, I always see it is a bit of a defeat for the principle of
XSLT when the answer to a question is "use processor X".

Anyway, it looks as though the "Char node-type Party" doesn't have much
popular support ...

Richard.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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