Use a non-recursive replace function when the parser supports it. https://bugs.gnu.org/29782 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9515 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736077 (for xsltproc) Patch copied from Debian: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/docbook-xsl.git/tree/debian/patches/765567_non-recursive_string_subst.patch Description: use EXSLT "replace" function when available A recursive implementation of string.subst is problematic, long strings with many matches will cause stack overflows. Author: Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@gmail.com> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/750593 --- a/lib/lib.xsl +++ b/lib/lib.xsl @@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ This module implements DTD-independent functions ******************************************************************** --> -<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> +<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" + xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings" + exclude-result-prefixes="str" + version="1.0"> <xsl:template name="dot.count"> <!-- Returns the number of "." characters in a string --> @@ -56,6 +59,9 @@ <xsl:param name="replacement"/> <xsl:choose> + <xsl:when test="function-available('str:replace')"> + <xsl:value-of select="str:replace($string, string($target), string($replacement))"/> + </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="contains($string, $target)"> <xsl:variable name="rest"> <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">