Re: [xsl] Inserting into a String

[Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>]

"David">> If you've got a long string and want to avoid deep recursion,
>
> But it was tail recursion, so an alternative is just to have faith
> that the implementers implement it in a way that the depth has no
> effect.

Whenever I write something that has deep recursion in it, Dimitre
shouts at me, so I've started trying to avoid it.  Something about not
all processors optimising tail recursion and some of them crashing
spectacularly over a certain depth.

> Of course neither your nor my solution is quite as concise as
>
> bash$ echo fooBarJones | sed -e "s/\([A-Z]\)/_\1/g"
> foo_Bar_Jones

Cheat.  Do the capitalisation too :)

But don't mistake me - no argument from me that regular expressions
are much better suited than XSLT to string manipulation.

Jeni

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