Name

<xsl:output>

Synopsis

The <xsl:output> element helps determine the exact formatting of the XML document produced when the result tree is stored in a file, written onto a stream, or otherwise serialized into a sequence of bytes. It has no effect on the production of the result tree itself. The following attributes are defined:

method

The default method is xml, which simply implies that the serialized output document will be a well-formed parsed entity or XML document. If method is set to html, or if the method attribute is not present and the root element of the output tree is <html>, then empty element tags such as <br/> are converted to <br> when output, and a variety of other changes are to attempt to generate HTML that is more compatible with existing browsers. The text method only outputs the contents of the text nodes in the output tree. It strips all markup. XSLT processors are also allowed to recognize and support other values such as TeX or RTF.

version

This contains a name token that identifies the version of the output method. In practice, this has no effect on the output.

encoding

This contains the name of the encoding the outputter should use, such as ISO-8859-1 or UTF-16.

omit-xml-declaration

If this has the value yes, then no XML declaration is included. If it has the value no or is not present, then an XML declaration is included.

standalone

This sets the value of the standalone attribute in the XML declaration. Like that attribute, it must have the value ...

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