Inside XSLT

Working with XSLT Elements

To build XSLT stylesheets, you need to be familiar with XSLT elements such as <xsl:template> and <xsl:stylesheet>. These elements support many attributes, and W3C has some formal definitions of the type of data you can assign to those attributes, so here are a few XSLT definitions you need to know:

• NCNameChar. A letter, digit, period, hyphen, or underscore.

• NCName. A letter or an underscore optionally followed by NCNameChars. That is, an XML name that doesn’t contain any colons. (See Chapter 1 for the definition of XML names.)

• QName. A qualified name. It’s made up of a prefix (which must be an NCName ), followed by a colon, followed by a local part (which must also be an NCName ).

• NameTest. A name (such as “book”) ...