Re: [xsl] How to convert a recursive function to a loop, using XSLT 2.0?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10.05.2019 13:21, Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> My input file consists of a sequence (sourceSeq) of <Byte> elements
representing a sequence of null-terminated strings. I want to create a
function that returns a sequence of <String> elements. For example, with this
sourceSeq:
> <Byte>48</Byte>
> <Byte>69</Byte>
> <Byte>00</Byte>
> <Byte>4A</Byte>
> <Byte>69</Byte>
> <Byte>6C</Byte>
> <Byte>6C</Byte>
> <Byte>00</Byte>
>
> the function should return:
>
> <String>Hi</String>
> <String>Jill</String>

Seems like a job for
  <xsl:for-each-group select="Byte" group-ending-with="Byte[. = '00']">
    <String>...</String>
  </xsl:for-each-group>
where the ... processes current-group()[position() lt last()] to turn
bytes into characters/strings.