Re: [xsl] XSL and infinite loops

["R. Guide" <rguide@xxxxxxxxx>]

>If you restrict XPath so it itself can't loop (which is probably teh
>case for the core Xpath1 functions (It's not the case for core
>Xpath2 )
>then you need to look at anything that moves the current node
>around the
>input tree, so that would be 
><xsl:-for-each and xsl-apply-templates.
>or calls named templates
>so xsl:call-template

Thanks! I'm having trouble picturing a scenario in which for-each -- by itself -- could cause an infinite loop under XSLT 1.0/XPath 1.0. Did you have a specific case in mind?

R. Guide

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