RE: [docbook-apps] make.clean.html and Firefox handling of white-space: pre ?

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] wrote:

> Making the substitutions in the text in XSLT 1.0 requires using a
> recursive template
> to step through each text node. The risk with recursive processing is
> getting too
> deeply nested in the recursions so that the XSLT processor gives ups.
> I think Saxon 6
> breaks at about 300 nested recusions.  A long programlisting with many
> spaces and
> newlines could easily exceed that.  I've solved that problem in the
> past by doing two
> levels of recursion, processing the content in, say, 50 line chunks.


Tail recursion offers a way arounnd the memory limit. I think that it is implemented in Saxon 6 as well as later versions. See the bottom entry on this page:

http://dev.saxonica.com/blog/mike/2006/08/#000123


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