Re: Processing based on number - alternatives to recu

xslt 2.0

<xsl:for-each select="1 to .">
...
</xsl:for-each>

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a numeric value in my XML and want to use it to control
>  some processing, say counting up until the number is reached, and
>  outputting a line in the process.
>
>  $ cat xtimes.xml
>  <Urmel>10</Urmel>
>
>  I use recursion and everything works fine. Is recursion the
>  preferred way to use a number to steer processing in XSL 1.0?
>
>  $ cat xtimes.xsl
>  <xsl:transform version="1.0"
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>    <xsl:output method="text"/>
>    <xsl:template match="Urmel"><!-- match element -->
>      <xsl:call-template name="rec">
>        <xsl:with-param name="iter" select="1"/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>    </xsl:template>
>    <xsl:template name="rec"><!-- recursive template -->
>      <xsl:param name="iter"/>
>      <xsl:if test="not( $iter &gt; . )"><!-- Greater than me? -->
>        <xsl:value-of select="concat( $iter, '&#10;' )"/>
>        <xsl:call-template name="rec"><!-- Then recurse. -->
>          <xsl:with-param name="iter" select="$iter + 1"/>
>        </xsl:call-template>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:template>
>  </xsl:transform>
>
>  In order to use xsl:for-each, I'd have to dispose of something
>  generating a node-set based on my number, wouldn't I?
>
>  Is there anything like that in XSL 1.0 or 2.0?
>
>  Would that somehow be better?
>
>  Or is this misguided optimization thinking in thinking that lots of
>  template invocations are bad?
>
>  Michael