David Carlisle wrote:

> I don't think you'd fill the stack if you wrote
> the function such that the sequence of strings
> was built up in an additional argument to the
> function so that your xsl:choose just consisted
> of a single recursive call in the iteration case,
> and returning the full sequence, not nothing,
> in the end case.

I gave that approach a try. See below. Unfortunately, it generates the same
"Too many nested function calls" error. Did I implement your suggestion
correctly?  /Roger

<xsl:function name="f:make-string-table-entries" as="element(String)*">
    <xsl:param name="total-size" as="xs:integer" />
    <xsl:param name="current-position" as="xs:integer" />
    <xsl:param name="sourceSeq" as="element(Byte)*" />

    <xsl:sequence select="f:make-string-table-entries-aux($total-size,
xs:integer(0), $current-position, $sourceSeq, ())" />

</xsl:function>

<xsl:function name="f:make-string-table-entries-aux" as="element(String)*">
    <xsl:param name="total-size" as="xs:integer" />
    <xsl:param name="current-size" as="xs:integer" />
    <xsl:param name="current-position" as="xs:integer" />
    <xsl:param name="sourceSeq" as="element(Byte)*" />
    <xsl:param name="results" as="element(String)*" />

    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$current-size ge $total-size">
            <xsl:sequence select="$results" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:variable name="string"
select="f:make-element-from-null-terminated-string('String',
$current-position, $sourceSeq)" as="element(String)"/>
            <xsl:variable name="length" select="string-length($string/text())
+ 1"/>  <!-- add 1 for the null terminator -->
            <xsl:sequence select="f:make-string-table-entries-aux($total-size,
                xs:integer($current-size+$length),
                xs:integer($current-position+$length),
                $sourceSeq,
                ($results, $string))" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>

</xsl:function>