RE: [xsl] problem: recursive templates slowing xalan processor down

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Post your code!

It's entirely possible that one XSLT processor spots an efficient strategy
for executing a particular stylesheet and another processor doesn't.

Without seeing your code, that's about all one can say.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: poppe chris [mailto:pc_poppe@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 10 May 2004 19:26
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] problem: recursive templates slowing xalan 
> processor down
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> im having a peculiar problem, ive made a xsl stylesheet that uses a 
> recursive template. When i use xmlspy to perform the xsl 
> transformation on a 
> sample xml file everything works fine, but when i use a xalan 
> processor 
> (org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process) the recursive template seems 
> to freeze the 
> processing. First I pass about 15 nodes to the template wich 
> then calls 
> itself with one node less. and so on. In the beginning it 
> goes fast but 
> after 3 recursive calls everything slows down and finally 
> looks like its 
> frozen (in fact i still get some output but only after very 
> long times). Is 
> it possible that several recursive calls freeze the processor 
> and how come 
> everything works with the xmlspy debugger??
> 
> 
> sincerely,
> Chris Poppe
> 
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