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

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

At least, there should be a well-known suite of tests that demonstrates
how an XSLT processor handles cases of interest (among them highly
recursive transformations), so that customers/developers could take an
informed decision before committing heavily to a specific XSLT
processor.

Dimitre Novatchev.

----------------------Original message ------------------------

> If I recall, scheme (and XSL's parent, DSSSL) mandate that
> implementations perform tail recursion elimination. XSLT of course
> hardly mandates anything about implementaions at all.

It seems unwise to me to mandate anything that isn't verifiable.
Mandating
that the processor can handle a recursion depth of 1000 is one thing,
mandating how it should achieve this is another. Even then, specifying
limits is a difficult area because it depends both on the XSLT
processor and
on the platform it runs on.

Mike Kay 




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