xsl:stylesheet

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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: (Not supported at this time.)

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 at this time.)

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.

NS support:Some support. See comments above.