Re: FW: transformer hangs

[Joseph Kesselman]

XSLT is a programming language, and it's possible to have infinite loops or similar problems in your stylesheet which are only provoked by certain specific sets of input. So the suggestion to try another processor for comparison is not a bad one; if the test fails in both processors, it probably is a stylesheet bug rather than a processor bug.

If Saxon (or whichever) does run it cleanly you may have to send the Xalan team a copy of your failing stylesheet and document, so we can watch it fail "in the lab" and see what it's actually doing. Or fire up a debugger and trace it through yourself; this is open-source code, after all, which means everyone's encouraged to help us analyse and improve it.

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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research