Re: [xsl] Recursion problem with Firefox

Subject: Re: [xsl] Recursion problem with Firefox
From: Manfred Staudinger <manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:47:38 -0800
> It's a processor bug (if it hits some memory limit it ought to fail
> rather than just give the wrong answer) so you'd need to report it to
> their bugzilla system.
I've submitted Bugzilla Bug 314985 for this.

Regards Manfred

On 03/11/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>   Can someone confirm the problem I described
>   http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200511/msg00059.html
>   to be reproducible? Or is it just me?
>
> It is reproducible, although oddly the version of your stylesheet as
> appears in the archives is not well formed:
>
> *  every declaration of the xhtml namespace  is followed by a spurious ";"
>    (incidentally you don't need most of those declarations)
>
> *  the text
>    This is my input file (abbreviated):
>    appears _before_ /xsl:stylesheet not after it.
>
> Neither of these problems appears to be in your original mail, so the
> list archives mail-to-html filter seems to have been confused.
>
>
> You say
>
> > But what can be limited to less than 5k ?
>
> It's a processor bug (if it hits some memory limit it ought to fail
> rather than just give the wrong answer) so you'd need to report it to
> their bugzilla system. I doubt it has anything to do with file _size_
> but rather with recursion depth. Your template is a non-tail recursive
> template and presumably you hit some stack overflow around 60 level of
> recursion (which seems rather low, but in practice most systems will
> have _some_ finite  limit on recursion stack).
>
> David
>
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