Chapter 14. Alternative Stylesheets
Up to this point, the XSLT
stylesheets you’ve seen have had the
stylesheet element as their document element and
have been separate documents from the source documents. This chapter
will show you several alternatives to this model.
The first alternative is called a literal result element
stylesheet. (I’ll sometimes call it a
literal stylesheet in this book, just to be brief.) This simplified
stylesheet (as XSLT 2.0 calls it), in essence, has a literal result
element as its document element rather than
stylesheet. You can read more about this kind of
stylesheet in Section 2.3 of the XSLT specification.
The second alternative is called an embedded
stylesheet, which embeds an XSLT stylesheet in the same
document that it transforms. It’s a sort of
self-contained source and stylesheet combined. This requires the use
of the id attribute on the
stylesheet element. See Section 2.7 of the XSLT
specification for more information on embedded stylesheets.
In addition, this chapter will discuss the
namespace-alias element. This element allows you
to swap a namespace aliased in a stylesheet with a different one in
the result. You’ll also see how to exclude unneeded
namespaces with the exclude-result-prefixes
attribute.
The opening example shows you how to use a literal stylesheet.
A Literal Result Element Stylesheet
Tired of the same old stylesheet? You can try a literal result element stylesheet. The original design idea behind a literal stylesheet was to provide ...
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