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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

14 Extensions

Extensions

XSLT allows two kinds of extension, extension elements and extension functions.

This version of XSLT does not provide a mechanism for defining implementations of extensions. Therefore, an XSLT stylesheet that must be portable between XSLT implementations cannot rely on particular extensions being available. XSLT provides mechanisms that allow an XSLT stylesheet to determine whether the XSLT processor by which it is being processed has implementations of particular extensions available, and to specify what should happen if those extensions are not available. If an XSLT stylesheet is careful to make use of these mechanisms, it is possible for it to take advantage of extensions and still work with any XSLT implementation.

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