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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

E Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The following have contributed to authoring this draft:

Daniel Lipkin, Saba

Jonathan Marsh, Microsoft

Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh

Norman Walsh, Arbortext

Steve Zilles, Adobe

This specification was developed and approved for publication by the W3C XSL Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification does not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its approval. The current members of the XSL WG are:

Sharon Adler, IBM (Co-Chair); Anders Berglund, IBM; Perin Blanchard, Novell; Scott Boag, Lotus; Larry Cable, Sun; Jeff Caruso, Bitstream; James Clark; Peter Danielsen, Bell Labs; Don Day, IBM; Stephen Deach, Adobe; Dwayne Dicks, SoftQuad; Andrew Greene, Bitstream; Paul Grosso, Arbortext; Eduardo Gutentag, Sun; Juliane Harbarth, Software AG; Mickey Kimchi, Enigma; Chris Lilley, W3C; Chris Maden, Exemplary Technologies; Jonathan Marsh, Microsoft; Alex Milowski, Lexica; Steve Muench, Oracle; Scott Parnell, Xerox; Vincent Quint, W3C; Dan Rapp, Novell; Gregg Reynolds, Datalogics; Jonathan Robie, Software AG; Mark Scardina, Oracle; Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh; Philip Wadler, Bell Labs; Norman Walsh, Arbortext; Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM; Steve Zilles, Adobe (Co-Chair)

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