RE: [xml-dev] Bad programmers use recursion, xslt (Offtopic...)

> So would there perhaps be also room for other xml
> transformation approaches, besides dominant functional
> alternatives? (but above 'wrap your own SAX-based
> solution' level)

The best-known such attempt is probably STX[1], which is a language for
defining streaming transformations. Because you only get to visit each node
once, you clearly need the ability to remember what you found, and STX is
therefore stateful.

[1] http://stx.sourceforge.net/

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/