Reference

This section is designed to serve as a quick reference for the more commonly used XSLT elements and XPath functions. It is by no means exhaustive.

In the following subsections, the word expression is used to denote the placement of an XPath statement.

XSLT Elements

The following XSLT elements are used together to create the declarative construct used to process an XML document representation. The definition of the unlisted XSLT elements can be found at http://www.w3c.org/TR/xslt.

The <xsl:apply-templates select=expression /> Element

This instruction causes the set of nodes selected by expression to be processed using the appropriate template rules. The xsl:sort and xsl:with-param elements are permitted in this element's body.

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