RE: Template recursion, StackOverflowError, saxon:while a nd variable assignability

Hi Andre

...
> by a graph processing 
...

Do you really mean graph or tree?

For a tree-structured problem one can envisage a very simple transform,
that declaratively takes in the entire data-base plus a change request
and returns the updated database. If the change request applies
to some low level branches, then multiple changes can be safely
executed in parallel on multiple processors. The XSLT compiler
needs to recognise the tunneling down to the branches idiom to
identify that the transform has a very controlled change domain
within which an assign rather than copy can be performed.

It then 'just' requires the XSLT compiler to manage the on-demand
re-distribution of data nodes to processors, so that you run one
massively parallel XSLT session rather than one per process.

If your problem is really a graph, then there must be significant
issues with determining the extent of the change, and more significantly
ensuring that the concurrent execution of 'assign'-optimised transforms
is deterministic. I don't think that XSLT as it stands, will allow for the
real life indeterminism that you currently have. You don't mind which
record is updated first, just so long as the updates are consistent.
But achieving this consistency probably means that you already have
a policy that constrains the potential graph anarchy, and this could
be exploited by XSLT to do what you do manually.

        Regards

                Ed Willink


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