Long tables in HTML

I'm converting a Docbook XML file which contains a very long table (more 
than 1000 rows) to HTML. Saxon crashes somewhere in the processing of 
the table, with an error message of excessive nesting of 
apply-templates. This problem was duplicated on two different machines. 
Has anyone experienced this or something similar, and, if so, is there a 
fix (besides breaking the table into smaller pieces)?

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David Zalkin
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