XSL recursion problem

[will]

All

Hope you can help with the following..

I am using recursion to calculate the sum of
DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT * CTXR_TAX_RATE elements, along the lines
of sum(a*b)

ie

xml fragment (the source doc have multiple EXPENSE segments) is as
follows

<EXPENSE>
<TABLE>TCO</TABLE>
<KEY>15000023955114</KEY>
<PROCCESSE_DATE>20060328</PROCCESSE_DATE>
<ITEM_DATE>20060209</ITEM_DATE>
<SYSTEM_DATE>20060328</SYSTEM_DATE>
<REFERENCE>L</REFERENCE>
<SUPPLIER_REFERENCE/>
<PURCHASE_ORDER_NO/>
<FILENOTE>67</FILENOTE>
<UNIT_QUANTITY/>
<UNIT_VALUE/>
<FUNCTION_TEXT/>
<PTK_TASK/>
<TRX_TYPE>CSEXP</TRX_TYPE>
<ICC_ICC>PRINT</ICC_ICC>
<ECODE>E102</ECODE>
<DEBT_INPUT_VALUE>2.81</DEBT_INPUT_VALUE>
<DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT>6.7</DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT>
<DEBT_OVERRIDE_VALUE>2.81</DEBT_OVERRIDE_VALUE>
<DEBT_DISCOUNT_VALUE>0.00</DEBT_DISCOUNT_VALUE>
<ACC_ACTIVITY_CATGRY/>
<CTXR_TAX_RATE>.175</CTXR_TAX_RATE>
</EXPENSE>
xsl i'm using is a single call to
<xsl:variable name="v_split_expense_tax_total">
<!-- Call to sumItems to sum (EXPENSE/DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT
* EXPENSE/CTXR_TAX_RATE )-->
<xsl:call-template name="sumExpItems">
<xsl:with-param name="p_index" select=" '1' "/>
<xsl:with-param name="p_items" select="//INVOICE"/>
<xsl:with-param name="p_runningTotal" select=" '0' "/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template name="sumExpItems">
<!--Recursive template to sum (EXPENSE/DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT
* EXPENSE/CTXR_TAX_RATE )-->
<xsl:param name="p_index" select=" '1' "/>
<xsl:param name="p_items"/>
<xsl:param name="p_runningTotal" select=" '0' "/>
<xsl:variable name="v_current_item"
select="$p_items/EXPENSE[$p_index]/DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT *
$p_items/EXPENSE[$p_index]/CTXR_TAX_RATE"/>
<xsl:variable name="v_remainingItems">
<xsl:choose>
<!--xsl:when test="$p_index = 4000"-->
<xsl:when test="$p_index = count($p_items/EXPENSE)">
<!--When index = count of expense items in bill ie at last item
-->
<xsl:text>0</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="sumExpItems">
<xsl:with-param name="p_index" select="$p_index+1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="p_items" select="$p_items"/>
<xsl:with-param name="p_runningTotal" select="$p_runningTotal +
$v_current_item"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$v_current_item +$v_remainingItems"/>
</xsl:template>
This works when i have about 100 expense items

However my source xml has more than 4000 items and i am getting "The
XSL stack has overflowed - probable cause is infinite template
recursion.."

I'm pretty sure the recursive template does not loop infinitely as it
has an exit clause when it reaches the last EXPENSE element.

I'm using MSXML4 from xmlSpy

Anyone know

a) Is there an upper limit on number of recursion before the processor
secides its in an infinite loop.

b) can the above be made more efficient

c) any other i can get round the above..

Thanks in advance..

Will

[Joseph Kesselman]

I don't know enough about MSXSL to be able to advise you on whether its
limit can be reset. However, in the "other ideas" category:

A non-recursive solution would be to gather all the a*b values in a
temporary document tree, and then call sum() on the result.
Unfortunately in XSLT 1.0 you'll need to use the EXSLT node-set
extension function to convert the result tree fragment into a form that
can be processed further, but that's a fairly standard nuisance.

Untested fragment just to illustrate the concept:

<xsl:variable name="products">
<xsl:for-each "//expense">
<product><xsl:value-of select="DEBT_INPUT_VALUE_BEFORE_SPLIT *
CTXR_TAX_RATE"/></product>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>

The calculated sum-of-products is:
<xsl:value-of select="sum(exslt:node-set($products)/product)"/>