Elements

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There are two types of elements discussed here: top-level elements and instructions. A top-level element must appear as the child of either <xsl:stylesheet> or <xsl:transform>. An instruction, on the other hand, is associated with a template. A stylesheet may include several templates. A third type of element, not discussed here, is the literal result element (LRE). An LRE also appears in a template. It consists of any non-instruction element that should be copied as-is to the result document, for example, an <hr> element in an HTML conversion stylesheet.

The element annotations include a description, a syntax listing, a list of required and optional attributes, a description of type and position, its source in the W3C 1.0 Recommendation and an explanation of the degree of present Netscape support.