It may be that (as Dimitre Novatchev suggests)
for-each may run faster. And so if you run into performance problems,
consider trying it. (But remember Jon Bentley's first rule of program
optimization: don't do it until you know you need to do it.)

I didn't suggest that "for-each" may run faster.

I said that iterative constucts may be implemented more efficiently.
(This is a general statement and we all know that efficiency varies
accross implementations.)

Sorry.  Quite right, my paraphrase was careless and I thank you for
the clarification.

This by no means should be interpreted as a recommendation to choose
<xsl:for-each> over <xsl:apply-templates>.

To repeat once again my statement: Choose an iterative construct over
*explicit* recursion, if this is possible.

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