<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.
On a related note, any attribute in an LRE and some attributes of a limited number of XSLT elements can also include what is known as an attribute value template. An attribute value template is simply a string that includes an embedded XPath expression which is used to specify the value of an attribute. At run-time the expression is evaluated and the result of the evaluation is substituted for the XPath expression. For example, assume that a variable "image-dir" is defined as follows:
<xsl:variable name="image-dir">/images</xsl:variable>
The expression to be evaluated is placed inside curly brackets:
<img src="{$image-dir}/mygraphic.jpg"/>
This would result in the following:
<img src="/images/mygraphic.jpg"/>
The element annotations that follow include a description, a syntax listing, a list of required and optional attributes, a description of type and position, its source in the W3C Recommendation and an explanation of the degree of present Gecko support.
- xsl:apply-imports
- xsl:apply-templates
- xsl:attribute
- xsl:attribute-set
- xsl:call-template
- xsl:choose
- xsl:comment
- xsl:copy
- xsl:copy-of
- xsl:decimal-format
- xsl:element
- xsl:fallback (not supported)
- xsl:for-each
- xsl:if
- xsl:import (mostly supported)
- xsl:include
- xsl:key
- xsl:message
- xsl:namespace-alias (not supported)
- xsl:number (partially supported)
- xsl:otherwise
- xsl:output (partially supported)
- xsl:param
- xsl:preserve-space
- xsl:processing-instruction
- xsl:sort
- xsl:strip-space
- xsl:stylesheet (partially supported)
- xsl:template
- xsl:text (partially supported)
- xsl:transform
- xsl:value-of (partially supported)
- xsl:variable
- xsl:when
- xsl:with-param