Table of contents

[Home] [W3C Specs]

2 Stylesheet Structure

2.1 XSLT Namespace

2.2 Stylesheet Element

2.3 Literal Result Element as Stylesheet

2.4 Qualified Names

2.5 Forwards-Compatible Processing

2.6 Combining Stylesheets

2.6.1 Stylesheet Inclusion

2.6.2 Stylesheet Import

2.7 Embedding Stylesheets

3.1 Root Node Children

3.2 Base URI

3.3 Unparsed Entities

3.4 Whitespace Stripping

5 Template Rules

5.1 Processing Model

5.2 Patterns

5.3 Defining Template Rules

5.4 Applying Template Rules

5.5 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules

5.6 Overriding Template Rules

5.8 Built-in Template Rules

6 Named Templates

7 Creating the Result Tree

7.1 Creating Elements and Attributes

7.1.1 Literal Result Elements

7.1.2 Creating Elements with xsl:element

7.1.3 Creating Attributes with xsl:attribute

7.1.4 Named Attribute Sets

7.2 Creating Text

7.3 Creating Processing Instructions

7.4 Creating Comments

7.5 Copying

7.6 Computing Generated Text

7.6.1 Generating Text with xsl:value-of

7.6.2 Attribute Value Templates

7.7 Numbering

7.7.1 Number to String Conversion Attributes

9 Conditional Processing

9.1 Conditional Processing with xsl:if

9.2 Conditional Processing with xsl:choose

11 Variables and Parameters

11.1 Result Tree Fragments

11.2 Values of Variables and Parameters

11.3 Using Values of Variables and Parameters with xsl:copy-of

11.4 Top-level Variables and Parameters

11.5 Variables and Parameters within Templates

11.6 Passing Parameters to Templates

12 Additional Functions

12.1 Multiple Source Documents

12.3 Number Formatting

12.4 Miscellaneous Additional Functions

14.1 Extension Elements

14.2 Extension Functions

16.1 XML Output Method

16.2 HTML Output Method

16.3 Text Output Method

16.4 Disabling Output Escaping

Appendices

A.1 Normative References

A.2 Other References

B Element Syntax Summary

C DTD Fragment for XSLT Stylesheets

D.1 Document Example

D.2 Data Example

E Acknowledgements

F Changes from Proposed Recommendation

G Features under Consideration for Future Versions of XSLT

3 Data Model

Data Model

The data model used by XSLT is the same as that used by [XPath] with the additions described in this section. XSLT operates on source, result and stylesheet documents using the same data model. Any two XML documents that have the same tree will be treated the same by XSLT.

Processing instructions and comments in the stylesheet are ignored: the stylesheet is treated as if neither processing instruction nodes nor comment nodes were included in the tree that represents the stylesheet.

[Next Chapter] [Home]