Creating XSLT Style Sheets
XSLT transformations accept a document tree as input and produce a tree as output. From the XSLT point of view, documents are trees built of nodes, and there are seven types of nodes XSLT recognizes; here are those nodes, and how XSLT processors treat them:
| Node | Description |
|---|---|
| Document root | Is the very start of the document |
| Attribute | Holds the value of an attribute after entity references have been expanded and surrounding whitespace has been trimmed |
| Comment | Holds the text of a comment, not including <!-- and --> |
| Element | Consists of all character data in the element, which includes character data in any of the children of the element |
| Namespace | Holds the namespace's URI |
| Processing instruction | Holds the text of the processing instruction, ... |
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