The <xsl:stylesheet> element (or the equivalent <xsl:transform> element) is the outermost element of a stylesheet.

Namespace Declaration

A pseudo-attribute required to identify the document as an XSLT stylesheet. Typically this is xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform".

Syntax

<xsl:stylesheet
  version="NUMBER"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  id="NAME"
  extension-element-prefixes="LIST-OF-NAMES"
  exclude-result-prefixes="LIST-OF-NAMES">
    ENTIRE STYLESHEET
</xsl:stylesheet>

Required Attributes

• version
  • : Specifies the version of XSLT required by this stylesheet.

Optional Attributes

• exclude-result-prefixes
  • : Specifies any namespace used in this document that should not be sent to the output document. The list is whitespace separated.
• extension-element-prefixes
  • : Specifies a space-separated list of any namespace prefixes for extension elements in this document.
• default-collation
  • : Specifies the default collation used by all {{Glossary("XPath")}}  expressions appearing in attributes or text value templates that have the element as an ancestor, unless overridden by another default-collation attribute on an inner element. It also determines the collation used by certain XSLT constructs (such as <xsl:key> and <xsl:for-each-group>) within its scope.
• default-mode
  • : Defines the default value for the mode attribute of all <xsl:template> and <xsl:apply-templates> elements within its scope.
• default-validation
  • : Defines the default value of the validation attribute of all relevant instructions appearing within its scope.
• expand-text
  • : Determines whether descendant text nodes of the element are treated as text value templates.
• id
  • : Specifies an id for this stylesheet. This is most often used when the stylesheet is embedded in another XML document.
• input-type-annotations
  • : Specifies whether type annotations are stripped from the element so the same results are produced whether the source documents have been validated against a schema or not.
• use-when
  • : Determines whether the element and all the nodes that have it as ancestor are excluded from the stylesheet.
• xpath-default-namespace
  • : Specifies the namespace that will be used if the element name is unprefixed or an unprefixed type name within an XPath expression.

Type

Required outermost element of stylesheet.

Specifications

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