Re: [xsl] What's your visual metaphor for XSL Transformations?

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry I am joining a bit late into this thread. Lot of good things
have already been said about recursion.

I think recursion is implemented (by compiler / interpreter / or, XSLT
processor) using some kind of stack.
1) Each time a method is called, the method is pushed on the stack.
2) Each time the method returns, the method is popped off the stack.
3) If a method calls itself recursively, another copy of the method is
pushed onto the stack.

If you understand how stack works, you can easily visualize recursion.

On 3/22/07, Rashmi Rubdi <rashmi.sub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nice post.
>
> It would be interesting to know how a recursive template could be visualized.
>
> A few days ago I posted a request on this list to create an HTML menu
> in the form of ul , li tags recursively. I found it tough to visualize
> the answer that was posted.
>
> I used to write a lot of recursive functions in C , but have now
> forgotten all about recursion since I didn't use it since school.
>
> I plan to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion  carefully
> to remember it again, I think it is useful to know especially in XSLT.
>
> -Rashmi


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi