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> Can you add to what you've said? Not in the two minutes available I'm afraid. There's a good chapter on recursive programming in my XSLT book ;-) Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ About how would that go in > terms of XSL? > > -Steve > > On 7/10/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You're out of luck with for-each, because conceptually at least it > > processes all the factories in parallel. So you can't > accumulate data as you go. > > Instead for this kind of problem you need recursion: to a process a > > list of factories, process the first factory, then process > the rest of > > the factories by a recursive call, passing any necessary > data (such as > > your "running > > total") as a parameter. > > > > Michael Kay > > http://www.saxonica.com/
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