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Re: [xsl] Suggestion for handling an endless loop

2019-10-18 16:54:06
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(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> 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

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