Abstract. Web archive 2008

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)