Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Below is a sample piece of code that I am using to use an XSL file to generate HTML file. In the stylesheet itself is a recurisive call that converts carriage returns to
tags so the carriage returns carry-over to the HTML doc. I am finding that in some of the large narratives (that contain over 350 carraige returns or so) I am getting a java.lang.StackOverflowError exception and the java app is aborting.

I researching I see that the stack size of the java virual machine is configurable using the -Xss switch. But I can't seem to get that to have any affect. I have tried -Xss1m and -Xss1k and the results are the same.

Any thoughts on how to solve this problem
- Should I apply the stylesheet in a different way?
- How can I set the stack size or is a another parameter need to be set
- Any other thoughts in which I should be intereseted in?

Thanks

import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import java.io.File;
public class XSLT_test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        try {
            
            File xslFile = new File("c:\\XSLT_Test\\MN0271100_SR.xsl");
            File xmlFile = new File("c:\\XSLT_Test\\TM-2005-064310.xml");
            
            StreamSource xmlSource = new StreamSource(xmlFile);
            StreamSource xsltSource = new StreamSource(xslFile);

            TransformerFactory transFact = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer trans = transFact.newTransformer(xsltSource);
            
            trans.transform(xmlSource, new  StreamResult(new File("c:\\XSLT_Test\\report.html")));
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("Error");
            System.out.println(ex.toString());
        }
    }
}

Template that is called recurisevly

<xsl:template name="text.wrap">
<!--
        TEMPLATE        text.wrap
        PURPOSE         Replace carriage return characters in text with the <br/> tag
                        so that text wraps naturally
        
        USAGE           
        
            <xsl:call-template name="text.wrap"
                <xsl:with-param name="texttowrap" select="your-xpath-here"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
            
        PARAMS
            
            texttowrap  TEXT    Text to be wrapped
            
        NOTES           Recursive
-->
     <xsl:param name="texttowrap"/>
     <xsl:variable name="textlength" select="string-length($texttowrap)"/>
     <!-- don't waste time if no text supplied or remaining from recursion-->
     <xsl:if test="$textlength > 0">
          <xsl:choose>
                 <xsl:when test="contains($texttowrap,$CR)">
	<!-- if there is any text to print (i.e. text before the first break) print it  
                                          now, add the <br/> tag to break the line -->
	<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($texttowrap,$CR)"/>
	<br/>
	<!-- if any is left, recurse-->
	<xsl:if test="string-length(substring-after($texttowrap,$CR)) > 0">
	         <xsl:call-template name="text.wrap">
	               <xsl:with-param name="texttowrap" select="substring-after
                                                      ($texttowrap,$CR)"/>
	          </xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:if>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
	<!-- either the text passed has no carriage returns, or recursion has
                            eliminated all of them in either case, just print the remainder -->
	<xsl:value-of select="$texttowrap"/>
                 </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
       </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>