Real World XML

Creating XSLT Stylesheets

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. XSLT recognizes seven types of nodes XSLT; here are those nodes, along with how XSLT processors treat them:

• The document root— This is the very start of the document.

• Attribute— This node holds the value of an attribute after entity references have been expanded and surrounding whitespace has been trimmed.

• Comment— This node holds the text of a comment, not including <!-- and -->.

• Element— This node consists of all character data in the element, including character data in any of the children of the element.

• Namespace— This node holds the namespace's URI.

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