(xslt 1.0) How to replace the space with some string from all the text values in xml?

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EDIT: [it started with character replacement and I ended up with discovering string replacements with help of Dimitre Novatchev and Rol

Answer 1

As per the wish of Roland, here is a tail-recursive solution:

Note that the recursive call is the last instruction in the template -- this is what makes it tail-recursive. The property of being tail-recursive allows a smart XSLT processor (such as Saxon or .NET XslCompiledTransform) to optimize the code, replacing the recursion with simple iteration.

Such code will not end up with a stack-overflow exception even when the "nesting" of calls is millions, whereas non-tail-recursive (and recursive) code typically raises this stack-overflow at a depth of about 1000 nested calls (this really depends on the amount of the available memory).

What if the XSLT processor is not "smart enough"? Is there another technique to avoid deep-level recursive calls stack overflow, that works with every XSLT processor?

Ask me in a separate question and I might tell you :)