Saxon

Legacy ID: #5472171 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

Saxon doesn't count the depth of recursion: if it reports that recursion has gone too deep and is possibly infinite, that's because it's successfully trapped the Java "out of stack space" error. Basically, Saxon uses the Java stack for template and function calls, except in the case where the call can be detected as tail-recursive. You can try increasing Java stack size using the -Xss option on the java command line. However, better solutions if you want your code to be fully scalable include making it tail recursive and using divide-and-conquer algorithms.