XSLT

Name

<xsl:text> — Allows you to write literal text to the output document.

Category

Instruction

Required Attributes

None.

Optional Attributes

disable-output-escaping

Defines whether special characters are escaped when they are written to the output document. For example, if the literal text contains the character >, it is normally written to the output document as >. If you code disable-output-escaping="yes", the character > is written instead. The XSLT processor uses this attribute only if you’re using the html or xml output methods. If you’re using <xsl:output method="text">, the attribute is ignored because output escaping is not done for the text output method.

Content

#PCDATA, literal text, and entity references.

Appears in

<xsl:text> appears inside a template.

Defined in

XSLT section 7.2, Creating Text.

Example

This sample stylesheet generates text with <xsl:text>. We intermingle <xsl:text> elements and <xsl:value-of> elements to create a coherent sentence. In this case, we simply generate a text document, but this technique works equally well to create the text of an HTML or XML element. Here is the stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:variable name="newline"> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:variable> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:text>Your document contains </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="count(//*)"/> <xsl:text> elements and </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="count(//@*)"/> ...