Top-Level Stylesheet Elements

XSL defines a number of top-level elements that can be direct child elements of <xsl:stylesheet>:

  • <xsl:attribute-set>

  • <xsl:decimal-format>

  • <xsl:import>

  • <xsl:include>

  • <xsl:key>

  • <xsl:namespace-alias>

  • <xsl:output>

  • <xsl:param>

  • <xsl:preserve-space>

  • <xsl:strip-space>

  • <xsl:template>

  • <xsl:variable>

The XSLT 1.1 working draft adds one more top-level element:

  • <xsl:script>

You’ll see all these official top-level XSLT elements in this book.

Note that in addition to all these top-level elements, you can also use normal XML comments throughout, because XSLT stylesheets are also XML documents:

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <!-- This template matches all ...

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