StackOverflowError with error2html.xslt stylesheet

[Bruno Dumon <br...@outerthought.org>]

Does anyone know what the "returns2br" template in the error2html.xslt
is good for?

What it does is changing newlines in the error messages (such as the
stacktraces) to <br/>'s. This is done by using a recursive call on that
template, and on long stacktraces this can give a stackoverflowerror
(each recursive template call probably corresponds to multiple nested
calls inside xalan). I don't know from how many lines exactly it starts
giving this error, probably around 600-700 or so. The stylesheet also
becomes quite slow then.

I tried dropping the template and simply putting it inside a <pre> and
that works justs as fine (both on Windows and Linux).

If nobody comes up with a good reason for the returns2br template, I'd
like to remove it.

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Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
bruno@outerthought.org                          bruno@apache.org