Name
<xsl:include>
Allows you to include another XSLT stylesheet. This
element allows you to put common transformations in a separate
stylesheet, then include the templates from that stylesheet at any
time. Unlike <xsl:import>
,
all templates included with <xsl:include>
have the same priority
as those in the including stylesheet. Another difference is that
<xsl:include>
can appear
anywhere in a stylesheet, whereas <xsl:import>
must appear at the
beginning.
Category
Top-level element.
Required Attribute
href
The URI of the included stylesheet.
Optional Attributes
None.
Content
None. <xsl:include>
is
an empty element.
Appears in
<xsl:include>
is a
top-level element and can appear only as a child of <xsl:stylesheet>
.
Defined in
[1.0] XSLT section 2.6.1, “Stylesheet Inclusion.”
[2.0] XSLT section 3.10.2, “Stylesheet Inclusion.”
Example
The <xsl:include>
element is a good way to break your stylesheets into smaller pieces;
those smaller pieces are often easier to reuse. Here’s a short
stylesheet that includes another:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- include.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:include href="include-stylesheet.xsl"/> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select="/report/title"/> <xsl:text>

</xsl:text> <xsl:for-each select="report/brand"> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="name"/> <xsl:text>: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(units, '##,###')"/> <xsl:text> bars sold. </xsl:text> ...
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