Inside XSLT

The <xsl:attribute-set> Element: Generating Attribute Sets

Sometimes when you create a new element, you want to add a number of attributes to that element all at once. There’s an easy way to do that, because you can use the <xsl:attribute-set> element. This element has two attributes:

• name(mandatory). The name of the attribute set. Set to a QName.

• use-attribute-sets(optional). The names of other attribute sets you want included in this one. Set to a whitespace-separated list of QNames.

The <xsl:attribute-set> element encloses <xsl:attribute> elements, one for each new attribute you want to create. When you use <xsl:attribute-set>to create a new set of attributes for an element, you give the attribute set a name. You can then assign that name ...