Subject: Re: help with recursive function
From: Mario Madunic <hajduk@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:18:08 -0700
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Andrew,
analyze-string would be a better solution but I will not be maintaining the
spellingBee.xml file and want this to be easy and simple for the production
team. Right now off the top of my head I don't see how to combine analyze-string
with spellingBee.xml.
Marijan (Mario) Madunic
Quoting Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/5/6 Mario Madunic <hajduk@xxxxxxxx>:
> > Thanks Andrew for that, the error message now tells me which line in the
> > function is causing the problem. Still perplexed but now have a focus.
> > Thanks
> > Mario
> >
> > line in question now
> >
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="f:f_UpperLowerCaseFix($l_StringAfterDelimiter)" />
> >
>
> I would probably do some old school xsl:message output to see what
> value was being returned:
>
> <xsl:message select="f:f_UpperLowerCaseFix($l_StringAfterDelimiter)"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="f:f_UpperLowerCaseFix($l_StringAfterDelimiter)" />
>
> The key to recursive functions is it should always be obvious when the
> recursion stops - your function is large and unwieldy so maybe
> concentrate on refining it a little, or reducing it to a postable
> example (and I really dislike the $p_ notation)
>
> You might find separating it out into steps each using analyze-string
> is the better approach.
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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