XSLT

Name

<xsl:attribute-set> — Allows you to define a group of attributes for the output document. You can then reference the entire attribute set with its name, rather than create all attributes individually.

Category

Top-level element

Required Attributes

name

Defines the name of this attribute set.

Optional Attributes

use-attribute-sets

Lists one or more attribute sets that should be used by this attribute set. If you specify more than one set, separate their names with whitespace characters. You can use this attribute to embed other <xsl:attribute-set>s in this one, but be aware that an <xsl:attribute-set> that directly or indirectly embeds itself results in an error. In other words, if attribute set A embeds attribute set B, which in turn embeds attribute set C, which in turn embeds attribute set A, the XSLT processor will signal an error.

Content

One or more <xsl:attribute> elements.

Appears in

<xsl:stylesheet>. <xsl:attribute-set> is a top-level element and can only appear as a child of <xsl:stylesheet>.

Defined in

XSLT section 7.1.4, Named Attribute Sets.

Example

For this example, we’ll create a stylesheet that defines attribute sets for regular text, emphasized text, and large text. Just for variety’s sake, we’ll use the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) specification to convert our XML document into a PDF file. Here’s our stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> ...