XML Pocket Reference, Second Edition

Name

<xsl:stylesheet>

Synopsis

<xsl:stylesheet
   version = "number"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”
   [id = "id“]
   [extension-element-prefixes = "prefix1 prefix2..."]
   [exclude-result-prefixes = "prefixa prefixb..."]>
   ...
</xsl:stylesheet>

The xsl:stylesheet element is the root element for XSLT stylesheets. The contents of this element must first contain any xsl:import elements, followed by any other top-level elements in any order. xsl:stylesheet uses the following attributes:

version

The version number of XSLT used by the stylesheet.

xmlns:xsl

This attribute contains a standard namespace declaration that maps the prefix xsl to the namespace URI http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform. The prefix can be changed if necessary. This attribute is technically optional, but de facto required.

id

Any XML name that’s unique within the stylesheet and is of type ID.

extension-element-prefixes

A whitespace-separated list of namespace prefixes used by extension elements in this document.

exclude-result-prefixes

A whitespace-separated list of namespace prefixes whose declarations should not be copied into the output document. If a namespace is needed in the output, it will be copied regardless.