XSLT

Name

<xsl:element> — Allows you to create an element in the output document. It works similarly to the <xsl:attribute> element.

Category

Instruction

Required Attributes

name

Defines the name of this element. A value of name="fred" will produce a <fred> element in the output document.

Optional Attributes

namespace

Defines the namespace used for this attribute.

use-attribute-sets

Lists one or more attribute sets that should be used by this element. If you specify more than one attribute set, separate their names with whitespace characters.

Content

An XSLT template.

Appears in

<xsl:element> appears inside a template.

Defined in

XSLT section 7.1.2, Creating Elements with xsl:element.

Example

We’ll use a generic stylesheet that copies the input document to the result tree, with one exception: all attributes in the original documents are converted to child elements in the result tree. The name of the new element will be the name of the format attribute, and its text will be the value of the attribute. Because we don’t know the name of the attribute until we process the XML source document, we must use the <xsl:element> element to create the result tree. Here’s how our stylesheet looks:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml"/> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:element name="{name()}"> <xsl:for-each select="@*"> <xsl:element name="{name()}"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:element> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:apply-templates select="*|text()"/> ...