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Re: [xsl] finding word count within a document, with xsl:accumulator

2021-01-22 11:51:26
On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 06:33 +0000, Mukul Gandhi
mukulg(_at_)softwarebytes(_dot_)org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:05 PM Peter Flynn peter(_at_)silmaril(_dot_)ie <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

I haven't found a use case for xsl:accumulator yet.

The case for accumulators is when you need to gather multiple
essentially independent sets of data from the input.

They are vey useful if you are streaming. Otherwise, a two-pass
approach is often much faster and may also use less memory.



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