XSLT elements reference

There are two types of elements discussed here: top-level elements and instructions. A top-level element must appear as the child of either or . An instruction, on the other hand, is associated with a template. A stylesheet may include several templates. A third type of element, not discussed here, is the literal result element (LRE). An LRE also appears in a template. It consists of any non-instruction element that should be copied as-is to the result document, for example, an


element in an HTML conversion stylesheet.

On a related note, any attribute in an LRE and some attributes of a limited number of XSLT elements can also include what is known as an attribute value template. An attribute value template is a string that includes an embedded XPath expression which is used to specify the value of an attribute. At run-time the expression is evaluated and the result of the evaluation is substituted for the XPath expression. For example, assume that a variable image-dir is defined as follows:

xml
/images

The expression to be evaluated is placed inside curly braces:

xml

This would result in the following:

xml

The element annotations that follow include a description, a syntax listing, a list of required and optional attributes, a description of type and position, its source in the W3C Recommendation and an explanation of the degree of present Gecko support.

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