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
id
(Supported as of 7.0 only if explicitly called out by an inline DTD.)- Specifies an
id
for this stylesheet. This is most often used when the stylesheet is embedded in another XML document.
- extension-element-prefixes (Not supported.)
- Specifies a space-separated list of any namespace prefixes for extension elements in this document.
- exclude-result-prefixes
- Specifies any namespace used in this document that should not be sent to the output document. The list is whitespace separated.
Type
Required outermost element of stylesheet.
Defined
XSLT, section 2.2.
Gecko support
Some support. See comments above.