The Format of a Stylesheet

Listing 5.1 shows a simple XSL stylesheet. Let's examine it and break it down line by line before moving on to examine each of the features of XSL.

Code Listing 5.1. catalog-simple.xsl—A Simple Stylesheet
 1: <?xml version="1.0"?>
 2: <!--
 3: A simple style sheet for placing a header and footer on any document.
 4:      Al Saganich for Macmillan USA
 5: -->
 6:
 7: <!-- Use the transform version 1.0 namespace -- >
 8:<xsl:stylesheet
					9:xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0" 10: indent-result="no" default-space="strip"> 11:<!-- <xsl:output method="text"> --> 12: <!-- 13: Format for transforms are match rule followed by action. 14: This transform matches the root element 15: Prints [header] followed by a cr-lf pair 16: 17: ...

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