> Jeni,
> 
> To be able to minimise the depth of recursion is something ***very
> important*** when confronted with the reality of some wellknown
> vendours' XSLT processors crashing during deep recursive processing.
> 
> In fact SAXON's been the only XSLT processor that has been confirmed by
> its author to implement tail recursion via iteration.

Umm, no.  I have also confirmed that 4XSLT does this.


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