RE: Re: Re: Unbounded element grouping/concatenation

> > Dimitre, could you help me with a DVC algorithm for what I'm trying
> > to do? I'm not sure how to apply it to this problem.
> 
> I don't have a good idea of what exactly recursive algorithm 
> you have to
> solve this problem.
> 
> It seems to me that such a recursive algorithm would process 
> the immediate
> following while it is of type="continuation".

The recursive algorithm I wish I could use is exactly as you stated.
Something like the following (not tested, might be typos)

  <xsl:template match="records">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="record[@type = 'normal']"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="record[@type = 'normal']">
    <record>
      <xsl:copy-of select="*" />
      <xsl:if test="following-sibling::record[1][@type='continuation']">
        <xsl:apply-templates select=following-sibling::record[1]"/>
      </xsl:if>
    </record>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="record[@type = 'continuation']">
    <xsl:copy-of select="*" />
    <xsl:if test="following-sibling::record[1][@type='continuation']">
      <xsl:apply-templates select=following-sibling::record[1]"/>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

However, this gives me a stack overflow error in Xalan (which I'm
stuck with for now). Actually, it gives me a stack overflow in Saxon
too -- I probably need to use named templates or something to get the
tail recursion optimization to work.

> To put it in other words, this is not a recursion that processes the
> elements of a *known* list, but one that scans a list to find 
> a specific
> element (in this case record with type="normal").

Exactly. I thought there still might be a way to implement DVC if one
could make the list "known" somehow in some efficient way (keys, or some
other xsl magic).

> Often something like binary search can be used to speed up such linear
> recursion, but I don't know if this can be used in this specific case.

How would one do this (for a binary search, don't you again need a known
search space?) What information do you need in order to tell me if it can 
be done for this case?

Cheers,
Raman Gupta

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