29836 2016-09-20 15:51:35 +0000 [FO31] fn:transform circularities 2016-12-16 19:55:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Functions and Operators 3.1 Candidate Recommendation PC Windows NT CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 abel.braaksma mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 127446 0 abel.braaksma 2016-09-20 15:51:35 +0000 If you call a stylesheet that itself calls fn:transform that in turn, directly or indirectly, calls itself, we have a circularity dependency. This may be intentional and cause a recursion that ends. It may indicate a failure and cause indefinite recursion. I don't think there is any way this can be detected, esp. since the execution context is implementation dependent (or defined?). But I think it makes sense to add a little Note explaining that it is allowed and that infinite recursion may go undetected. 127461 1 mike 2016-09-20 22:15:35 +0000 I don't think this really needs saying, but I have added the note: <p>Recursive use of the <code>fn:transform</code> function may lead to catastrophic failures such as non-termination or stack overflow. No error code is assigned to such conditions, since they cannot necessarily be detected by the processor.</p> 127466 2 abel.braaksma 2016-09-21 00:41:04 +0000 Thanks