You haven't shown the function

f:f_StringEndsWith($p_Node)

You would get infinite recursion if this function always returns the value
"noPunct" when its argument is an empty sequence.

Just a theory.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marijan (Mario) Madunic [mailto:hajduk@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 November 2006 00:44
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Trying to find following sibling that ends in 
> punctuation
> 
> Using XSLT 2, XPath 2, and Saxon8
> 
> I'm trying to get the count(of preceding::*) of a following 
> sibling node that ends with some sort of punctuation, and 
> throw this value into a variable.
> 
> I've created a recurisive template
> 
>     <xsl:template name="ct_PositionOfNodeThatEndsWithPunct">
> 
>         <!-- set a default value for p_Node -->
>         <xsl:param name="p_Node" 
> select="following-sibling::*[self::P][1]" />
> 
>         <!-- test what the element ends with -->      
>         <xsl:variable name="l_EndsWith" 
> select="f:f_StringEndsWith($p_Node)" />
> 
>         <xsl:choose>
>             <xsl:when test="$l_EndsWith = 'noPunct'">
>                 <xsl:call-template
> name="ct_PositionOfNodeThatEndsWithPunct">
>                     <xsl:with-param name="p_Node" 
> select="following-sibling::*[self::P][1]" />
>                 </xsl:call-template>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of 
> select="count(preceding::*) + 1" /></xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>
> 
>     </xsl:template>
> 
> Now  I was hoping that because called templates are context 
> sensitive I can keep on just doing 
> "select="following-sibling::*[self::P][1]" as I've done to 
> give p_Node a new value to iterate through. I keep on getting 
> out of memory error. Memory is not an issue as from my past 
> experiences when I get this error when I introduce a 
> recursive template usually means I've given the recursion no 
> way out. But I can't see why this is happening.
> 
> Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mario