Re: General trick for re-applying recursivly/iterative

Simply comparing the size of the input and the output file (and
calling the straightforward XSLT
script over again) might do the trick for pruning; if you need to
guard against replacment operations
that might not change the size, cmp or diff would provide an
indication of "no change".

-W

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> 2009/12/4 Ben Stover <bxstover@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > In general when I apply a XSLT script then one rule/template is matched at
a time (for one node).
> > Then the XSLT script is stopped.
> >
> > Imagine for example a template which deletes (only) the current leaves of
> > an XML node tree. When the current leaves are removed then there are new
leaves.
> >
> > Is there a general (!) trick to re-apply the script on the resulting XML
doc again?
> >
> > Again: I am not searching for a specific solution but a general trick
which works for (almost) all
> > XSLT scripts. The processing should only stop with the re-application when
there is no difference
> > any more between input and output XML.
> >
> > This general trick should preferably work with XSLT v1.1 (if not possible
then v2.0 is ok as well).
>
>
> A couple of points here:
>
> - XSLT 1.1 was dropped in favour of going straight to 2.0, so it's not
> clear why you would want 1.1?
>
> - You've written a wordy description with no input/output examples, so
> it's hard to understand and even harder to give a precise reply
>
>
>
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