RE: [xsl] XSLT use cases; data-centric todocument-centrictransformations

[Peter Gerstbach <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In Saxon 8.2 a sequence of 500 sibling instructions will in fact compile to
> the same code as the XPath expression (a1, a2, a3, ... a500), which is
> actually handled as (a1, (a2, (a3, (a4, ...))) and therefore does indeed
> make excessive use of stack space. This will be fixed next time around,
> although it's very rare that it causes a problem since you rarely see
> sequences of more than 5 sibling instructions.

Thanks for this explanation. Now I know how to avoid this stack 
overflow, and as
you stated, this amount of siblings is in fact rare.

Peter