Re: [xsl] finding word count within a document, with xsl:accumulator

["Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/01/2021 17:51, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 06:33 +0000, Mukul Gandhi
> mukulg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:05 PM Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
> > xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't found a use case for xsl:accumulator yet.
>
> The case for accumulators is when you need to gather multiple
> essentially independent sets of data from the input.
>
> They are vey useful if you are streaming. Otherwise, a two-pass
> approach is often much faster and may also use less memory.

I thought it would be something like that, thank you.

P