xsl:stylesheet

xsl:stylesheet

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 o