XSL

Table of contents 1 Introduction 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 Data Model 3.1 Root Node Children 3.2 Base URI 3.3 Unparsed Entities 3.4 Whitespace Stripping 4 Expressions 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 5.7 Modes 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 8 Repetition 9 Conditional Processing 9.1 Conditional Processing with xsl:if 9.2 Conditional Processing with xsl:choose 10 Sorting 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 12.2 Keys 12.3 Number Formatting 12.4 Miscellaneous Additional Functions 13 Messages 14 Extensions 14.1 Extension Elements 14.2 Extension Functions 15 Fallback 16 Output 16.1 XML Output Method 16.2 HTML Output Method 16.3 Text Output Method 16.4 Disabling Output Escaping 17 Conformance 18 Notation Appendices A References A.1 Normative References A.2 Other References B Element Syntax Summary C DTD Fragment for XSLT Stylesheets (Non-Normative) D Examples (Non-Normative) D.1 Document Example D.2 Data Example E Acknowledgements (Non-Normative) F Changes from Proposed Recommendation (Non-Normative) G Features under Consideration for Future Versions of XSLT (Non-Normative)