XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

<xsl:template>

Defines an output template. Templates that begin <xsl:template match="x" define a transformation for a given element. Templates that begin <xsl:template name="x" define a set of output elements that are processed whenever the template is invoked by name. All <xsl:template> elements must have either the match or the name attribute defined. Although not common, it is also possible to create <xsl:template> elements that have both a match and a name.

Category

Top-level element.

Required Attributes

None; however, an <xsl:template> must contain a match attribute, a name attribute, or both.

Optional Attributes

match

A pattern that defines the elements for which this template should be invoked. For example, <xsl:template match="xyz"> defines a template for processing <xyz> elements.

name

An attribute that names this template. Named templates are invoked with the <xsl:call-template> element.

mode

An attribute that defines a mode for this template. A mode is a convenient syntax that allows you to write specific templates for specific purposes. For example, we could write an <xsl:template> with mode="toc" to process a node for the table of contents of a document, and we could write other <xsl:template>s with mode="print", mode="online", mode="index", etc. to process the same information for different purposes.

[2.0] In XSLT 2.0, the mode attribute can use the value #default to indicate that this template applies to the default mode, or use #all to indicate that this template applies ...