Re: Suggestion for handling an endless loop

When you say you "change it to 1.0", do you mean that you change the version
number in the xsl:stylesheet element, or that you change the XSLT processor
you are using, or both?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 22:06, Mark Giffin m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm getting what appears to be an endless loop while running XSLT 2.0. It
hangs when transforming a certain XML file, and I can watch the memory
consumption rise to as much as 9 GB, and it apparently will never end. I have
to force it to stop. When I change it back to XSLT 1.0, it runs fine, and when
it hits the same file it hung up on with 2.0, it transforms in a second or two
with 1.0. The XSLT does not use any 2.0 capabilities yet. The only change is
changing 2.0 to 1.0 in <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0">.
>
> I'm interested in methods to debug something like this. Where to look? I
notice Oxygen has an XSLT profiler.
>
> Details:
> The XSLT is running under the DITA Open Toolkit version 3.3.2 (late model).
I am converting an HTML-based publishing output from a much older version of
the DITA OT, 1.8.5 (where the code worked). It looks like the 3.3.2 OT uses
Saxon-HE-9.8.0-14.jar.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark