Appendix B. XSLT Pattern Grammar

Table B-1 lists the entire grammar for patterns in XSLT 1.0, straight from the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt. The syntax for patterns is a subset of the syntax for XPath expressions.

Table B-1. Patterns

[1]

Pattern

 
LocationPathPattern
| Pattern '|' LocationPathPattern

[2]

LocationPath-Pattern

 
'/' RelativePathPattern?
| IdKeyPattern (('/'|'//')
RelativePathPattern)?
| '//'? RelativePathPattern

[3]

IdKeyPattern

 
'id' '(' Literal ')'
| 'key' '(' Literal ',' Literal ')'

[4]

RelativePath-Pattern

 
StepPattern
| RelativePathPattern '/'
StepPattern
| RelativePathPattern '//'
StepPattern

[5]

StepPattern

 
ChildOrAttributeAxisSpecifier
NodeTest Predicate*

[6]

ChildOr-AttributeAxis-Specifier

 
AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier
| ('child' | 'attribute') '::'

The AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier, NodeTest, Predicate, and Literal productions are defined in the XPath grammar. See Appendix A.

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