> However, I still think there are even better ways of doing this,
> because in the above template there is still a lot of wasted
> iteration. Recursion works quickly without wasting iteration, but tail
> recursion optimization doesn't seem to be supported by Xalan-J 2.4.0,
> because I get stack overflows for large numbers of continuation
> records.
>
> Perhaps the DVC approach that I've read a little about would help
> here?

Yes. One of the goals of DVC is to minimize the possibility of stack oveflow
caused by recursion depth.



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Dimitre Novatchev.
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