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<h1><a name="title" id="title"/>XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 (Second Edition)</h1>
<h2><a name="w3c-doctype" id="w3c-doctype"/>W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation 21 April 2009</h2><dl><dt>This version:</dt><dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt20-20090421/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt20-20090421/</a></dd><dt>Latest version:</dt><dd>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/</a><br/>
</dd><dt>Previous version:</dt><dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/</a><br/></dd><dt>Editor:</dt><dd>Michael Kay, Saxonica <a href="http://www.saxonica.com/">&lt;http://www.saxonica.com/&gt;</a></dd></dl><p>Please refer to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2009/qt-errata/xslt-errata2e.html"><strong>errata</strong></a> for this document, which may
include some normative corrections.</p><p>See also <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xslt20"><strong>translations</strong></a>.</p><p>This document is also available in these non-normative formats: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt20-20090421/xslt20-20090421.xml">XML</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt20-20090421/Overview-diff.html">HTML with revision markings</a>, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/schema-for-xslt20.xsd">Schema for XSLT 2.0 stylesheets</a>.</p><p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> © 2009 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><acronym title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym></a>, <a href="http://www.ercim.org/"><acronym title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</acronym></a>, <a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer">liability</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks">trademark</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents">document use</a> rules apply.</p></div><hr/><div>
<h2><a name="abstract" id="abstract"/>Abstract</h2><p>This specification defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT 2.0,
a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.</p><p>XSLT 2.0 is a revised version of the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation
<a href="#xslt">[XSLT 1.0]</a> published on 16 November 1999.</p><p>XSLT 2.0 is designed to be used in conjunction with XPath 2.0,
which is defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>. XSLT shares the same data model as XPath 2.0,
which is defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, and it uses the library of functions and
operators defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p><p>XSLT 2.0 also includes optional facilities to serialize the results of a transformation,
by means of an interface to the serialization component described in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>.</p><p>
<em>This document contains hyperlinks to specific sections or definitions within
other documents in this family of specifications. These links are indicated visually by a superscript
identifying the target specification: for example XP for XPath, DM for the XDM data model, FO for Functions
and Operators.</em>
</p></div><div>
<h2><a name="status" id="status"/>Status of this Document</h2><p><em>This section describes the status of this
document at the time of its publication.
Other documents may supersede this document.
A list of current W3C publications and the latest
revision of this technical report can be found in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index</a>
at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p><p>This is one document in a set of eight documents that are being progressed to
Edited Recommendation together (XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0, XQueryX 1.0, XSLT 2.0,
Data Model (XDM), Functions and Operators, Formal Semantics, Serialization). </p><p>This document, published on 21 April 2009,
is a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#ProposedEditedRec">Proposed Edited Recommendation</a>
of the W3C.
This second edition is not a new version of this specification;
its purpose is to clarify a number of issues that have become apparent
since the first edition was published.
All of these clarifications (excepting trivial editorial fixes)
have been published in a separate errata document.</p><p>This document has been developed by the W3C
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL">XSL Working Group</a>,
which is part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity">XML Activity</a>.</p><p>Publication as a Proposed Edited Recommendation does not imply
endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be
updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time.
It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.</p><p>W3C Advisory Committee Members are invited to send formal review comments on this
Proposed Edited Recommendation to the W3C Team until 31 May 2009.
Members of the W3C Advisory Committee will find the appropriate review form for this document by consulting their
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/myQuestionnaires">list of current WBS questionnaires</a>.</p><p>This document incorporates changes made against the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#RecsW3C">Recommendation</a>
of 23 January 2007 that resolve all errata known at the date of publication.
A list of the errata that have been applied, with
links to the Bugzilla database, is provided in <a href="#changes-since-edition-1"><i>K Changes since the First Edition</i></a>.
The version of this document with change highlighting indicates where the textual changes
have been made, and cross-references each textual change to the erratum where it
originated.</p><p>Please report errors in and submit comments on this document using W3C's
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/">public Bugzilla system</a>
(instructions can be found at
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/04/qt-bugzilla">http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/04/qt-bugzilla</a>).
If access to that system is not feasible, you may send your comments
to the W3C XSLT/XPath/XQuery public comments mailing list,
<a href="mailto:public-qt-comments@w3.org">public-qt-comments@w3.org</a>.
It will be very helpful if you include the string
"[XSLT 2.0]"
in the subject line of your report, whether made in Bugzilla or in email.
Each Bugzilla entry and email message should contain only one error report.
Archives of the comments and responses are available at
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/</a>. </p><p>An updated implementation report will be made available at
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/xslt20-test/Documentation/reportSummary.html">http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/xslt20-test/Documentation/reportSummary.html</a>
(member-only), but the decision of the Director to transition this document to
Proposed Edited Recommendation did not depend on the existence of that report.</p><p>The XSL Working Group plans to submit this specification for consideration as a
W3C Recommendation (Second Edition) as soon as the following conditions are met:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The XSLT 2.0 test suite has been extended to test each substantive change made since
the publication of XSLT 2.0.</p></li><li><p>Each substantive change (including the new function <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-element-with-id"><code>element-with-id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>)
has at least two reported XSLT implementations (not necessarily products on general release)</p></li><li><p>The Working Group has responded formally to all issues raised during the PER period
against this document and the documents on which it depends.</p></li></ol><p>This document was produced by groups operating under the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February 2004
W3C Patent Policy</a>.
W3C maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/18797/status#disclosures">public list of any
patent disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables of the
XML Query Working Group and also maintains a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/19552/status#disclosures">public list of any patent
disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables of the XSL
Working Group; those pages also include instructions for
disclosing a patent.
An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes
contains
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">Essential Claim(s)</a>
must disclose the information in accordance with
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>. </p></div><div class="toc">
<h2><a name="contents" id="contents"/>Table of Contents</h2><p class="toc">1 <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a><br/>
    1.1 <a href="#what-is-xslt">What is XSLT?</a><br/>
    1.2 <a href="#whats-new-in-xslt2">What's New in XSLT 2.0?</a><br/>
2 <a href="#concepts">Concepts</a><br/>
    2.1 <a href="#terminology">Terminology</a><br/>
    2.2 <a href="#notation">Notation</a><br/>
    2.3 <a href="#initiating">Initiating a Transformation</a><br/>
    2.4 <a href="#executing-a-transformation">Executing a Transformation</a><br/>
    2.5 <a href="#context">The Evaluation Context</a><br/>
    2.6 <a href="#parsing-and-serialization">Parsing and Serialization</a><br/>
    2.7 <a href="#extensibility">Extensibility</a><br/>
    2.8 <a href="#stylesheets-and-schemas">Stylesheets and XML Schemas</a><br/>
    2.9 <a href="#errors">Error Handling</a><br/>
3 <a href="#stylesheet-structure">Stylesheet Structure</a><br/>
    3.1 <a href="#xslt-namespace">XSLT Namespace</a><br/>
    3.2 <a href="#reserved-namespaces">Reserved Namespaces</a><br/>
    3.3 <a href="#extension-attributes">Extension Attributes</a><br/>
    3.4 <a href="#xslt-media-type">XSLT Media Type</a><br/>
    3.5 <a href="#standard-attributes">Standard Attributes</a><br/>
    3.6 <a href="#stylesheet-element">Stylesheet Element</a><br/>
        3.6.1 <a href="#default-collation-attribute">The default-collation attribute</a><br/>
        3.6.2 <a href="#user-defined-top-level">User-defined Data Elements</a><br/>
    3.7 <a href="#simplified-stylesheet">Simplified Stylesheet Modules</a><br/>
    3.8 <a href="#backwards">Backwards-Compatible Processing</a><br/>
    3.9 <a href="#forwards">Forwards-Compatible Processing</a><br/>
    3.10 <a href="#combining-modules">Combining Stylesheet Modules</a><br/>
        3.10.1 <a href="#locating-modules">Locating Stylesheet Modules</a><br/>
        3.10.2 <a href="#include">Stylesheet Inclusion</a><br/>
        3.10.3 <a href="#import">Stylesheet Import</a><br/>
    3.11 <a href="#embedded">Embedded Stylesheet Modules</a><br/>
    3.12 <a href="#conditional-inclusion">Conditional Element Inclusion</a><br/>
    3.13 <a href="#built-in-types">Built-in Types</a><br/>
    3.14 <a href="#import-schema">Importing Schema Components</a><br/>
4 <a href="#data-model">Data Model</a><br/>
    4.1 <a href="#xml-versions">XML Versions</a><br/>
    4.2 <a href="#stylesheet-stripping">Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</a><br/>
    4.3 <a href="#stripping-annotations">Stripping Type Annotations from a Source Tree</a><br/>
    4.4 <a href="#strip">Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree</a><br/>
    4.5 <a href="#id-in-data-model">Attribute Types and DTD Validation</a><br/>
    4.6 <a href="#limits">Limits</a><br/>
    4.7 <a href="#d-o-e-in-data-model">Disable Output Escaping</a><br/>
5 <a href="#constructs">Features of the XSLT Language</a><br/>
    5.1 <a href="#qname">Qualified Names</a><br/>
    5.2 <a href="#unprefixed-qnames">Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</a><br/>
    5.3 <a href="#expressions">Expressions</a><br/>
    5.4 <a href="#static-and-dynamic-context">The Static and Dynamic Context</a><br/>
        5.4.1 <a href="#static-context">Initializing the Static Context</a><br/>
        5.4.2 <a href="#additional-static-context">Additional Static Context Components used by XSLT</a><br/>
        5.4.3 <a href="#xpath-dynamic-context">Initializing the Dynamic Context</a><br/>
            5.4.3.1 <a href="#focus">Maintaining Position: the Focus</a><br/>
            5.4.3.2 <a href="#evaluation-context">Other components of the XPath Dynamic Context</a><br/>
        5.4.4 <a href="#additional-dynamic-context">Additional Dynamic Context Components used by XSLT</a><br/>
    5.5 <a href="#patterns">Patterns</a><br/>
        5.5.1 <a href="#pattern-examples">Examples of Patterns</a><br/>
        5.5.2 <a href="#pattern-syntax">Syntax of Patterns</a><br/>
        5.5.3 <a href="#pattern-semantics">The Meaning of a Pattern</a><br/>
        5.5.4 <a href="#pattern-errors">Errors in Patterns</a><br/>
    5.6 <a href="#attribute-value-templates">Attribute Value Templates</a><br/>
    5.7 <a href="#sequence-constructors">Sequence Constructors</a><br/>
        5.7.1 <a href="#constructing-complex-content">Constructing Complex Content</a><br/>
        5.7.2 <a href="#constructing-simple-content">Constructing Simple Content</a><br/>
        5.7.3 <a href="#namespace-fixup">Namespace Fixup</a><br/>
    5.8 <a href="#uri-references">URI References</a><br/>
6 <a href="#rules">Template Rules</a><br/>
    6.1 <a href="#defining-templates">Defining Templates</a><br/>
    6.2 <a href="#defining-template-rules">Defining Template Rules</a><br/>
    6.3 <a href="#applying-templates">Applying Template Rules</a><br/>
    6.4 <a href="#conflict">Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</a><br/>
    6.5 <a href="#modes">Modes</a><br/>
    6.6 <a href="#built-in-rule">Built-in Template Rules</a><br/>
    6.7 <a href="#apply-imports">Overriding Template Rules</a><br/>
7 <a href="#for-each">Repetition</a><br/>
8 <a href="#conditionals">Conditional Processing</a><br/>
    8.1 <a href="#xsl-if">Conditional Processing with xsl:if
</a><br/>
    8.2 <a href="#xsl-choose">Conditional Processing with xsl:choose
</a><br/>
9 <a href="#variables-and-parameters">Variables and Parameters</a><br/>
    9.1 <a href="#variables">Variables</a><br/>
    9.2 <a href="#parameters">Parameters</a><br/>
    9.3 <a href="#variable-values">Values of Variables and Parameters</a><br/>
    9.4 <a href="#temporary-trees">Creating implicit document nodes</a><br/>
    9.5 <a href="#global-variables">Global Variables and Parameters</a><br/>
    9.6 <a href="#local-variables">Local Variables and Parameters</a><br/>
    9.7 <a href="#scope-of-variables">Scope of Variables</a><br/>
    9.8 <a href="#circularity">Circular Definitions</a><br/>
10 <a href="#callable-components">Callable Components</a><br/>
    10.1 <a href="#named-templates">Named Templates</a><br/>
        10.1.1 <a href="#with-param">Passing Parameters to Templates</a><br/>
        10.1.2 <a href="#tunnel-params">Tunnel Parameters</a><br/>
    10.2 <a href="#attribute-sets">Named Attribute Sets</a><br/>
    10.3 <a href="#stylesheet-functions">Stylesheet Functions</a><br/>
11 <a href="#creating-new-nodes">Creating Nodes and Sequences</a><br/>
    11.1 <a href="#literal-result-element">Literal Result Elements</a><br/>
        11.1.1 <a href="#setting-annotation-for-lre">Setting the Type Annotation for Literal Result Elements</a><br/>
        11.1.2 <a href="#attributes-for-lres">Attribute Nodes for Literal Result Elements</a><br/>
        11.1.3 <a href="#lre-namespaces">Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</a><br/>
        11.1.4 <a href="#namespace-aliasing">Namespace Aliasing</a><br/>
    11.2 <a href="#xsl-element">Creating Element Nodes Using xsl:element
</a><br/>
        11.2.1 <a href="#annotation-for-constructed-element">Setting the Type Annotation for a Constructed Element Node</a><br/>
    11.3 <a href="#creating-attributes">Creating Attribute Nodes Using xsl:attribute
</a><br/>
        11.3.1 <a href="#annotation-for-constructed-attribute">Setting the Type Annotation for a Constructed Attribute Node</a><br/>
    11.4 <a href="#creating-text-nodes">Creating Text Nodes</a><br/>
        11.4.1 <a href="#literal-text-nodes">Literal Text Nodes</a><br/>
        11.4.2 <a href="#xsl-text">Creating Text Nodes Using xsl:text
</a><br/>
        11.4.3 <a href="#value-of">Generating Text with xsl:value-of
</a><br/>
    11.5 <a href="#creating-document-nodes">Creating Document Nodes</a><br/>
    11.6 <a href="#creating-processing-instructions">Creating Processing Instructions</a><br/>
    11.7 <a href="#creating-namespace-nodes">Creating Namespace Nodes</a><br/>
    11.8 <a href="#creating-comments">Creating Comments</a><br/>
    11.9 <a href="#copying">Copying Nodes</a><br/>
        11.9.1 <a href="#shallow-copy">Shallow Copy</a><br/>
        11.9.2 <a href="#copy-of">Deep Copy</a><br/>
    11.10 <a href="#constructing-sequences">Constructing Sequences</a><br/>
12 <a href="#number">Numbering</a><br/>
    12.1 <a href="#formatting-supplied-number">Formatting a Supplied Number</a><br/>
    12.2 <a href="#numbering-based-on-position">Numbering based on Position in a Document
</a><br/>
    12.3 <a href="#convert">Number to String Conversion Attributes</a><br/>
13 <a href="#sorting">Sorting</a><br/>
    13.1 <a href="#xsl-sort">The xsl:sort Element</a><br/>
        13.1.1 <a href="#sorting-process">The Sorting Process</a><br/>
        13.1.2 <a href="#comparing-sort-keys">Comparing Sort Key Values</a><br/>
        13.1.3 <a href="#collating-sequences">Sorting Using Collations</a><br/>
    13.2 <a href="#creating-sorted-sequence">Creating a Sorted Sequence</a><br/>
    13.3 <a href="#sorted-iteration">Processing a Sequence in Sorted Order</a><br/>
14 <a href="#grouping">Grouping</a><br/>
    14.1 <a href="#current-group">The Current Group</a><br/>
    14.2 <a href="#current-grouping-key">The Current Grouping Key</a><br/>
    14.3 <a href="#xsl-for-each-group">The xsl:for-each-group Element</a><br/>
    14.4 <a href="#grouping-examples">Examples of Grouping</a><br/>
    14.5 <a href="#non-transitivity">Non-Transitivity</a><br/>
15 <a href="#regular-expressions">Regular Expressions</a><br/>
    15.1 <a href="#analyze-string">The xsl:analyze-string instruction</a><br/>
    15.2 <a href="#regex-group">Captured Substrings</a><br/>
    15.3 <a href="#regex-examples">Examples of Regular Expression Matching</a><br/>
16 <a href="#add-func">Additional Functions</a><br/>
    16.1 <a href="#document">Multiple Source Documents</a><br/>
    16.2 <a href="#unparsed-text">Reading Text Files</a><br/>
    16.3 <a href="#key">Keys</a><br/>
        16.3.1 <a href="#xsl-key">The xsl:key Declaration</a><br/>
        16.3.2 <a href="#keys">The key Function</a><br/>
    16.4 <a href="#format-number">Number Formatting</a><br/>
        16.4.1 <a href="#defining-decimal-format">Defining a Decimal Format</a><br/>
        16.4.2 <a href="#processing-picture-string">Processing the Picture String</a><br/>
        16.4.3 <a href="#analysing-picture-string">Analysing the Picture String</a><br/>
        16.4.4 <a href="#formatting-the-number">Formatting the Number</a><br/>
    16.5 <a href="#format-date">Formatting Dates and Times</a><br/>
        16.5.1 <a href="#date-picture-string">The Picture String</a><br/>
        16.5.2 <a href="#lang-cal-country">The Language, Calendar, and Country Arguments</a><br/>
        16.5.3 <a href="#date-time-examples">Examples of Date and Time Formatting</a><br/>
    16.6 <a href="#misc-func">Miscellaneous Additional Functions</a><br/>
        16.6.1 <a href="#current-function">current</a><br/>
        16.6.2 <a href="#unparsed-entity-uri">unparsed-entity-uri</a><br/>
        16.6.3 <a href="#unparsed-entity-public-id">unparsed-entity-public-id</a><br/>
        16.6.4 <a href="#generate-id">generate-id</a><br/>
        16.6.5 <a href="#system-property">system-property</a><br/>
17 <a href="#message">Messages</a><br/>
18 <a href="#extension">Extensibility and Fallback</a><br/>
    18.1 <a href="#extension-functions">Extension Functions</a><br/>
        18.1.1 <a href="#testing-function-availability">Testing Availability of Functions</a><br/>
        18.1.2 <a href="#calling-extension-functions">Calling Extension Functions</a><br/>
        18.1.3 <a href="#external-objects">External Objects</a><br/>
        18.1.4 <a href="#testing-type-availability">Testing Availability of Types</a><br/>
    18.2 <a href="#extension-instruction">Extension Instructions</a><br/>
        18.2.1 <a href="#designating-extension-namespace">Designating an Extension Namespace</a><br/>
        18.2.2 <a href="#testing-instruction-available">Testing Availability of Instructions</a><br/>
        18.2.3 <a href="#fallback">Fallback</a><br/>
19 <a href="#result-trees">Final Result Trees</a><br/>
    19.1 <a href="#creating-result-trees">Creating Final Result Trees</a><br/>
    19.2 <a href="#validation">Validation</a><br/>
        19.2.1 <a href="#validating-constructed-nodes">Validating Constructed Elements and Attributes</a><br/>
            19.2.1.1 <a href="#validating-using-validation-attribute">Validation using the [xsl:]validation Attribute</a><br/>
            19.2.1.2 <a href="#validation-xsl-type">Validation using the [xsl:]type Attribute</a><br/>
            19.2.1.3 <a href="#validation-process">The Validation Process</a><br/>
        19.2.2 <a href="#validating-document-nodes">Validating Document Nodes</a><br/>
20 <a href="#serialization">Serialization</a><br/>
    20.1 <a href="#character-maps">Character Maps</a><br/>
    20.2 <a href="#disable-output-escaping">Disabling Output Escaping</a><br/>
21 <a href="#conformance">Conformance</a><br/>
    21.1 <a href="#basic-conformance">Basic XSLT Processor</a><br/>
    21.2 <a href="#schema-aware-conformance">Schema-Aware XSLT Processor</a><br/>
    21.3 <a href="#serialization-feature">Serialization Feature</a><br/>
    21.4 <a href="#backwards-compatibility-feature">Backwards Compatibility Feature</a><br/>
</p>
<h3><a name="appendices" id="appendices"/>Appendices</h3><p class="toc">A <a href="#references">References</a><br/>
    A.1 <a href="#normative-references">Normative References</a><br/>
    A.2 <a href="#other-references">Other References</a><br/>
B <a href="#xslt-mime-definition">The XSLT Media Type</a><br/>
    B.1 <a href="#media-type-registration">Registration of MIME Media Type application/xslt+xml</a><br/>
    B.2 <a href="#media-type-fragid">Fragment Identifiers</a><br/>
C <a href="#glossary">Glossary</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
D <a href="#element-syntax-summary">Element Syntax Summary</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
E <a href="#error-summary">Summary of Error Conditions</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
F <a href="#implementation-defined-features">Checklist of Implementation-Defined Features</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
G <a href="#schema-for-xslt">Schema for XSLT Stylesheets</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
H <a href="#acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
I <a href="#requirements-checklist">Checklist of Requirements</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
J <a href="#changes">Changes from XSLT 1.0</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
    J.1 <a href="#incompatibilities">Incompatible Changes</a><br/>
        J.1.1 <a href="#incompatibility-stripping">Tree construction: whitespace stripping</a><br/>
        J.1.2 <a href="#incompatibility-serialization">Changes in Serialization Behavior</a><br/>
        J.1.3 <a href="#backwards-compatibility-behavior">Backwards Compatibility Behavior</a><br/>
        J.1.4 <a href="#incompatibility-without-schema">Incompatibility in the Absence of a Schema</a><br/>
        J.1.5 <a href="#compatibility-with-schema">Compatibility in the Presence of a Schema</a><br/>
        J.1.6 <a href="#xpath-compatibility">XPath 2.0 Backwards Compatibility</a><br/>
    J.2 <a href="#changes-since-1.0">New Functionality</a><br/>
        J.2.1 <a href="#pervasive-changes">Pervasive changes</a><br/>
        J.2.2 <a href="#major-features">Major Features</a><br/>
        J.2.3 <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a><br/>
K <a href="#changes-since-edition-1">Changes since the First Edition</a> (Non-Normative)<br/>
</p></div><hr/><div class="body"><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="introduction" id="introduction"/>1 Introduction</h2><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="what-is-xslt" id="what-is-xslt"/>1.1 What is XSLT?</h3><p>This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the XSLT 2.0
language.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stylesheet" id="dt-stylesheet" title="stylesheet"/>A
transformation in the XSLT language is expressed
in the form of a <b>stylesheet</b>, whose syntax is
well-formed XML <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a> conforming to the
Namespaces in XML Recommendation <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>A stylesheet generally includes elements that are defined by XSLT
as well as elements that are not defined by XSLT. XSLT-defined elements are
distinguished by use of the namespace <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</code>
(see <a href="#xslt-namespace"><i>3.1 XSLT Namespace</i></a>),
which is referred to in this specification as the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT
namespace</a>. Thus this specification is a definition of
the syntax and semantics of the XSLT namespace.</p><p>The term <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> reflects
the fact that one of the important roles of XSLT is to add styling information
to an XML source document, by transforming it into a document consisting of XSL
formatting objects (see <a href="#xsl">[Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)]</a>),
or into another presentation-oriented format such as HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
However, XSLT is used for a wide range of transformation tasks,
not exclusively for formatting and presentation applications.</p><p>A transformation expressed in XSLT describes rules for transforming
zero or more source trees into
one or more result trees. The structure of these trees
is described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.
The transformation is achieved by
a set of <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>.
A template rule associates a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>, which
matches nodes in the source document, with a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.
In many cases, evaluating the sequence constructor will cause new
nodes to be constructed, which can be used to produce part of a result tree.
The structure of the result trees can be completely different
from the structure of the source trees.
In constructing a result
tree, nodes from the source trees can be filtered and reordered, and
arbitrary structure can be added. This mechanism allows a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
to be applicable to a wide class of
documents that have similar source tree structures.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-principal-stylesheet-module" id="dt-principal-stylesheet-module" title="principal stylesheet module"/>A
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> may consist of several
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>,
contained in different XML documents.
For a given transformation, one of these functions as the
<b>principal stylesheet module</b>. The complete <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is
assembled by finding the <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> referenced
directly or indirectly from the
principal stylesheet module using <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> and
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> elements: see <a href="#include"><i>3.10.2 Stylesheet Inclusion</i></a> and
<a href="#import"><i>3.10.3 Stylesheet Import</i></a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="whats-new-in-xslt2" id="whats-new-in-xslt2"/>1.2 What's New in XSLT 2.0?</h3><p>XSLT 1.0 was published in November 1999, and version 2.0 represents a significant increase
in the capability of the language. A detailed list of changes is included in <a href="#changes"><i>J Changes from XSLT 1.0</i></a>.
XSLT 2.0 has been developed in parallel with XPath 2.0 (see <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>), so the changes
to XPath must be considered alongside the changes to XSLT.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="concepts" id="concepts"/>2 Concepts</h2><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="terminology" id="terminology"/>2.1 Terminology</h3><p>For a full glossary of terms, see <a href="#glossary"><i>C Glossary</i></a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-processor" id="dt-processor" title="processor"/>The software responsible
for transforming source trees into
result trees using an XSLT stylesheet
is referred to as the <b>processor</b>. This is sometimes expanded
to <em>XSLT processor</em> to avoid any confusion with
other processors, for example an XML processor.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-implementation" id="dt-implementation" title="implementation"/>A specific product that performs the functions of
an <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">XSLT processor</a> is referred to as
an <b>implementation</b>
<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-result-tree" id="dt-result-tree" title="result tree"/>The term <b>result tree</b>
is used to refer to any tree constructed by <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instructions</a>
in the stylesheet. A result tree is either a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
or a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-final-result-tree" id="dt-final-result-tree" title="final result tree"/>A <b>final result tree</b>
is a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> that forms part of the final output
of a transformation. Once created, the contents of a final result tree are
not accessible within the stylesheet itself.<span class="definition">]</span> The <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction always creates a final result tree, and a final result tree may also be created
implicitly by the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a>.
The conditions under which
this happens are described in <a href="#executing-a-transformation"><i>2.4 Executing a Transformation</i></a>.
A final result tree <span class="verb">may</span> be serialized
as described in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-source-tree" id="dt-source-tree" title="source tree"/>The term <b>source tree</b>
means any tree provided as input to the transformation. This includes the document containing
the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a> if any, documents containing
nodes supplied as the values of <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>,
documents obtained from the results of functions such as <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>,
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, and documents returned by extension functions or extension
instructions. In the context of a particular XSLT instruction, the term <b>source tree</b> means
any tree provided as input to that instruction; this may be a source tree of the transformation as a whole,
or it may be a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a> produced during the course
of the transformation.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-temporary-tree" id="dt-temporary-tree" title="temporary tree"/>The term <b>temporary tree</b>
means any tree that is neither a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>
nor a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.<span class="definition">]</span> Temporary trees
are used to hold intermediate results during the execution of the transformation.</p><p>In this specification the phrases <span class="verb">must</span>,
<span class="verb">must not</span>, <span class="verb">should</span>, <span class="verb">should not</span>,
<span class="verb">may</span>,
<span class="verb">required</span>, and <span class="verb">recommended</span>
are to be interpreted as described in <a href="#RFC2119">[RFC2119]</a>.</p><p>Where the phrase <span class="verb">must</span>, <span class="verb">must not</span>,
or <span class="verb">required</span> relates to the behavior of the
XSLT processor, then an implementation is not conformant unless it behaves
as specified, subject to the more detailed rules in <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>. </p><p>Where the phrase <span class="verb">must</span>, <span class="verb">must not</span>,
or <span class="verb">required</span> relates to a stylesheet, then the
processor <span class="verb">must</span> enforce this constraint on stylesheets by reporting an error
if the constraint is not satisfied.</p><p>Where the phrase <span class="verb">should</span>, <span class="verb">should not</span>,
or <span class="verb">recommended</span> relates to a stylesheet,
then a processor <span class="verb">may</span> produce warning messages if the constraint is not
satisfied, but <span class="verb">must not</span> treat this as an error.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-implementation-defined" id="dt-implementation-defined" title="implementation-defined"/>In this
specification, the term <b>implementation-defined</b> refers to a feature where the
implementation is allowed some flexibility, and where the choices made by the
implementation <span class="verb">must</span> be described in
documentation that accompanies any conformance claim.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-implementation-dependent" id="dt-implementation-dependent" title="implementation-dependent"/>The
term <b>implementation-dependent</b> refers to a feature where the
behavior <span class="verb">may</span> vary from one implementation to another, and where the vendor is not expected to
provide a full specification of the behavior.<span class="definition">]</span> (This might apply, for example, to
limits on the size of source documents that can be transformed.)</p><p>In all cases where this specification leaves the behavior implementation-defined
or implementation-dependent, the implementation has the option of providing mechanisms that allow
the user to influence the behavior.</p><p>A paragraph labeled as a <b>Note</b> or described as an <b>example</b> is
non-normative.</p><p>Many terms used in this document are defined in the XPath specification
<a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a> or the XDM specification <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>. Particular
attention is drawn to the following:</p><ul><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-atomization" id="dt-atomization" title="atomize"/>The term <b>atomization</b> is defined
in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-atomization">Section
2.4.2 Atomization</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. It is a process that takes as input a sequence of nodes and atomic values, and
returns a sequence of atomic values, in which the nodes are replaced by their typed values as defined in
<a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.<span class="definition">]</span> For some nodes (for example, elements with element-only content),
atomization generates a <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a>.</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-typed-value" id="dt-typed-value" title="typed value"/>The term <b>typed value</b>
is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-typed-value">Section
5.15 typed-value Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.
Every node except an element defined in the schema with element-only content has a
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">typed value</a>. For example, the
<a title="typed value" href="#dt-typed-value">typed value</a>
of an attribute of type <code>xs:IDREFS</code> is a sequence of zero or more <code>xs:IDREF</code> values.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-string-value" id="dt-string-value" title="string value"/>The term <b>string value</b>
is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-string-value">Section
5.13 string-value Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.
Every node has a <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>. For example, the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>
of an element is the concatenation of the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string values</a> of all its descendant text nodes.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-compatibility-mode" id="dt-compatibility-mode" title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode"/>The term
<b>XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</b> is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#static_context">Section
2.1.1 Static Context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. This is a setting in the
static context of an XPath expression; it has two values, <code>true</code> and <code>false</code>. When the value
is set to true, the semantics of function calls and certain other operations are adjusted to give a greater degree
of backwards compatibility between XPath 2.0 and XPath 1.0.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li></ul><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-core-function" id="dt-core-function" title="core function"/>The
term <b>core function</b> means a function that is specified in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> and that is in the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function
namespace</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="notation" id="notation"/>2.2 Notation</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-xslt-element" id="dt-xslt-element" title="XSLT element"/>An <b>XSLT element</b> is an element
in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> whose syntax and semantics are
defined in this specification.<span class="definition">]</span> For a non-normative list of XSLT elements, see
<a href="#element-syntax-summary"><i>D Element Syntax Summary</i></a>.</p><p>In this document the specification of each
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a> is preceded by
a summary of its syntax in the form of a model for elements of that
element type. A full list of all these specifications can be found in
<a href="#element-syntax-summary"><i>D Element Syntax Summary</i></a>.
The meaning of syntax summary notation is as follows:</p><ul><li><p>An attribute that is <span class="verb">required</span> is shown with its
name in bold. An attribute that may be omitted is shown with a question mark following its name.</p></li><li><p>An attribute that is <a title="deprecated" href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a>
is shown in a grayed font within square brackets.</p></li><li><p>The string that occurs in the place of an attribute value
specifies the allowed values of the attribute. If this is surrounded
by curly brackets (<code>{...}</code>), then the attribute value is treated as an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>,
and the string occurring within curly brackets specifies the allowed
values of the result of evaluating the attribute value template.
Alternative allowed values are separated by <code>|</code>. A quoted
string indicates a value equal to that specific string. An unquoted,
italicized name specifies a particular type of value.</p><p><span>Except where the set of allowed values of an
attribute is specified using the italicized name <em>string</em> or <em>char</em>,
leading and trailing whitespace in the attribute value is ignored.</span>
In the case of an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>,
this applies to the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> obtained
when the attribute value template is expanded.</p></li><li><p>Unless the element is <span class="verb">required</span> to be empty, the model element
contains a comment specifying the allowed content. The allowed
content is specified in a similar way to an element type declaration
in XML; <em>sequence constructor</em> means that any mixture of text nodes,
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result elements</a>,
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>, and
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a> from
the <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a> category is allowed;
<em>other-declarations</em> means that any mixture of XSLT
elements from the <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> category,
other than <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>, is
allowed, together with <a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>.</p></li><li><p>The element is prefaced by comments indicating if it belongs
to the <code>instruction</code> category or
<code>declaration</code> category or both. The category of an
element only affects whether it is allowed in the content of elements
that allow a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> or
<em>other-declarations</em>.</p></li></ul><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e697" id="d5e697"/>Example: Syntax Notation</div><p>This example illustrates the notation used to describe
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>.</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-example-element"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:example-element<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  debug? = { "yes" | "no" }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: ((<a href="#element-variable">xsl:variable</a> | <a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a>)*, <a href="#element-sequence">xsl:sequence</a>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:example-element&gt;</code></p><p>This example defines a (non-existent) element <code>xsl:example-element</code>. The element is classified as
an instruction. It takes a mandatory <code>select</code> attribute, whose value is an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, and
an optional <code>debug</code> attribute, whose value <span class="verb">must</span> be either <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>; the curly
brackets indicate that the value can be defined as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value
template</a>, allowing a value such as <code>debug="{$debug}"</code>, where the <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a>
<code>debug</code>
is evaluated to yield <code>"yes"</code> or <code>"no"</code> at run-time.</p><p>The content of an <code>xsl:example-element</code> instruction is defined to be a sequence of zero or more
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements, followed by an <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>
element.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0010"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0010] </span></a>A <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> is signaled
if an XSLT-defined element is used in a context
where it is not permitted, if a <span class="verb">required</span> attribute is omitted,
or if the content of the element does not correspond to the
content that is allowed for the element.
</p><p>Attributes are validated as follows. These rules apply to the value of the
attribute after removing leading and trailing whitespace.</p><ul><li><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0020"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0020] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an attribute (other than an attribute written using curly brackets in
a position where an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a> is permitted) contains a value
that is not one of the permitted values for that attribute.
</p></li><li><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0030"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0030] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of an attribute written
using curly brackets, in
a position where an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a> is
permitted, is a value
that is not one of the permitted values for that attribute.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when
any XPath expressions within the curly brackets can be evaluated statically), then the processor may
optionally signal this as a static error.
</p></li></ul><p>Special rules apply if the construct appears in part of
the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that is processed with
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>: see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-deprecated" id="dt-deprecated" title="deprecated"/>Some constructs defined in this
specification are described as being <b>deprecated</b>. The use of this term implies that
stylesheet authors <span class="verb">should not</span> use the construct, and that the construct may
be removed in a later version of this specification.<span class="definition">]</span> All constructs that are
<a title="deprecated" href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a> in this specification are also (as it happens)
optional features that <a title="implementation" href="#dt-implementation">implementations</a> are
<span class="verb">not required</span> to provide.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This working draft includes a non-normative XML Schema for XSLT
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>
(see <a href="#schema-for-xslt"><i>G Schema for XSLT Stylesheets</i></a>). The syntax summaries described in this section are normative.</p></div><p>XSLT defines a set of standard functions which are additional to those defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>. The signatures of these functions are described using the
same notation as used in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
The names of these functions are all in the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="initiating" id="initiating"/>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</h3><p>This document does not specify any application programming interfaces or other
interfaces for initiating a transformation. This section, however, describes the information that is
supplied when a transformation is initiated. Except where otherwise indicated, the information
is <span class="verb">required</span>.</p><p>Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> allow a transformation to run as two or more phases, for example parsing, compilation and
execution. Such a distinction is outside the scope of this specification, which treats transformation as a single
process controlled using a set of <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>, supplied
in the form of XML documents.</p><p>The following information is supplied to execute a transformation:</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a> that is
to act as the <a title="principal stylesheet module" href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal stylesheet module</a> for the transformation.
The complete <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is assembled by recursively
expanding the <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> and <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a>
declarations in the principal stylesheet module, as described in <a href="#include"><i>3.10.2 Stylesheet Inclusion</i></a> and <a href="#import"><i>3.10.3 Stylesheet Import</i></a>.
</p></li><li><p>A set (possibly empty) of values for <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>
(see <a href="#global-variables"><i>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</i></a>). These
values are available for use within <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-initial-context-node" id="dt-initial-context-node" title="initial context node"/>A node that acts as
the <b>initial context node</b> for the transformation. This node is accessible within the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> as the initial value of the XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>
<code>.</code> (dot) and <code>self::node()</code>,
as described in <a href="#focus"><i>5.4.3.1 Maintaining Position: the Focus</i></a>
<span class="definition">]</span>. </p><p>If no initial context
node is supplied, then the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>,
<a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>, and
<a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>
will initially be undefined, and the evaluation of any expression that
references these values will result in a dynamic error.
(Note that the initial context size and
context position will always be 1 (one) when an initial context node is supplied, and will be undefined if no
initial context node is supplied).</p></li><li><p>Optionally, the name of a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a> which is to
be executed as the entry point to the transformation. This template <span class="verb">must</span>
exist within the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>. If no
named template is supplied, then the transformation starts
with the <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
that best matches the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>,
according to the rules defined in
<a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>. Either a named template, or an initial context node,
or both, <span class="verb">must</span> be supplied.</p></li><li><p>Optionally, an initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>.
This <span class="verb">must</span> either be the default mode,
or a mode that is explicitly named in the <code>mode</code> attribute of an
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration within the stylesheet.
If an initial mode
is supplied, then in searching for the <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> that best matches
the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>,
the processor considers only those rules that apply to the initial mode. If no
initial mode is supplied, the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a> is used.</p></li><li><p>A base output URI. <span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-base-output-uri" id="dt-base-output-uri" title="base output URI"/>
The <b>base output URI</b> is a URI to be used as the base URI when resolving a relative URI allocated to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.
If the transformation generates more than one final result
tree, then typically each one will be allocated a URI relative to this base URI.
<span class="definition">]</span>
The way in which a base output URI is established
is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
</p></li><li><p>A mechanism for obtaining a document node and a media type, given an absolute URI. The total
set of available documents (modeled as a mapping from URIs to document nodes) forms part of the
context for evaluating XPath expressions, specifically the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function.
The XSLT <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function additionally requires the media type of the
resource representation, for use in interpreting any fragment identifier present within a URI
Reference.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The set of documents
that are available to the stylesheet is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>, as is
the processing that is carried out to construct a tree representing
the resource retrieved using a given URI. Some possible ways of
constructing a document (specifically, rules for constructing a document
from an Infoset or from a PSVI) are described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.</p></div></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0040"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0040] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies a template name that does not match the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of a named template defined in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0045"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0045] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies an initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>
(other than the default mode)
that does not match the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> in the <code>mode</code> attribute of any
template defined in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0047"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0047] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies both an initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a> and an initial
template.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0050"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0050] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the stylesheet that is invoked declares a visible
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>
with <code>required="yes"</code> and no value for
this parameter is supplied during the invocation of the stylesheet. A stylesheet parameter
is visible if it is not masked by another global variable or parameter with the same name and higher
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-initial-template" id="dt-initial-template" title="initial template"/>The transformation
is performed by evaluating an <b>initial template</b>. If a
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a> is
supplied when the transformation is initiated, then this is the initial template;
otherwise, the initial
template is the <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
selected according to the rules of the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
for processing the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a> in the
initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Parameters passed to the transformation by the client application are matched against
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a> (see <a href="#global-variables"><i>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</i></a>),
not against the <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a> declared within
the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a>.
All <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>
within the initial template to be executed will take their default values.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0060"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0060] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a> defines a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
that specifies <code>required="yes"</code>.
</p><p>A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> can process further source documents in
addition to those supplied when the transformation is invoked.
These additional documents can be loaded using the functions
<a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> (see <a href="#document"><i>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</i></a>)
or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> (see <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>), or
they can be supplied as <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>
(see <a href="#global-variables"><i>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</i></a>),
or as the result of an <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension function</a>
(see <a href="#extension-functions"><i>18.1 Extension Functions</i></a>).</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="executing-a-transformation" id="executing-a-transformation"/>2.4 Executing a Transformation</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-template-rule" id="dt-template-rule" title="template rule"/>A stylesheet contains a
set of <b>template rules</b> (see <a href="#rules"><i>6 Template Rules</i></a>). A template rule has three parts: a
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that is matched against nodes,
a (possibly empty) set of <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>, and a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructor</a> that is evaluated to produce a
sequence of items.<span class="definition">]</span> In many cases these items are newly constructed
nodes, which are then written to a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p><p>A transformation as a whole is
executed by evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructor</a> of the
<a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a> as described
in <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>. </p><p>The result sequence produced by evaluating the initial template is handled
as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>If the initial template has an <code>as</code> attribute, then the result
sequence of the initial template is checked against the required type in the
same way as for any other template.</p></li><li><p>If the result sequence is non-empty, then it is used to construct
an implicit
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>,
following the rules described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>:
the effect is as if the initial template <var>T</var> were called by an
implicit template of the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;xsl:template name="IMPLICIT"&gt;
&lt;xsl:result-document href=""&gt;
&lt;xsl:call-template name="T"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></li></ol><p>An implicit result tree is also created when the result sequence is empty, provided
that no <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction has been evaluated during the course of
the transformation. In this situation the implicit result tree will consist of a document node with no children.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This means that there is always at least one result tree. It also means that if the
content of the initial template is a single <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction, as in the example
above, then only one result tree is produced, not two. It is useful to make the result document explicit as this
is the only way of invoking document-level validation.</p><p>If the result of the initial template is non-empty, and an explicit
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction has been evaluated with the empty attribute <code>href=""</code>, then an error will occur
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE1490">ERR XTDE1490</a>]</span>, since it is not possible to create two final result
trees with the same URI.</p></div><p>A <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> is a
sequence of sibling nodes in the stylesheet, each of which is either an
<a title="XSLT instruction" href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a>,
a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
a text node, or
an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-instruction" id="dt-instruction" title="instruction"/>An
<b>instruction</b> is either an <a title="XSLT instruction" href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a>
or an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-xslt-instruction" id="dt-xslt-instruction" title="XSLT instruction"/>An
<b>XSLT instruction</b> is an <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>
whose syntax summary in this specification contains the annotation
<code>&lt;!-- category: instruction --&gt;</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">Extension instructions</a> are
described in <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>.</p><p>The main categories of <a title="XSLT instruction" href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a> are as follows:</p><ul><li><p>instructions that create new nodes: <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>,
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>,
<a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a>, <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a>,
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>;</p></li><li><p>an instruction that returns an arbitrary sequence by evaluating an XPath expression:
<a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>;</p></li><li><p>instructions that cause conditional or repeated evaluation of nested instructions:
<a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a>,
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>;</p></li><li><p>instructions that invoke templates: <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>, <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>;</p></li><li><p>Instructions that declare variables: <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>, <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>;</p></li><li><p>other specialized instructions: <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>, <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>,
<a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a>, <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>.</p></li></ul><p>Often, a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
will include an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction, which selects a sequence
of nodes to be processed. Each of the selected nodes is
processed by searching the stylesheet for a matching
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
and evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructor</a> of that template rule.
The resulting sequences of items are concatenated, in order,
to give the result of the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction,
as described in <a href="#applying-templates"><i>6.3 Applying Template Rules</i></a>;
this sequence is often added to a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. Since the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructors</a> of the selected
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>
may themselves contain <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instructions, this results in a cycle of selecting nodes,
identifying <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>,
constructing sequences, and constructing
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result trees</a>, that recurses
through a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="context" id="context"/>2.5 The Evaluation Context</h3><p>The results of some expressions and instructions in a stylesheet may depend on information
provided contextually. This context information is divided into two categories: the static
context, which is known during static analysis of the stylesheet, and the dynamic context, which
is not known until the stylesheet is evaluated. Although information in the static context is
known at analysis time, it is sometimes used during stylesheet evaluation.</p><p>Some context information can be set by means of declarations within the stylesheet itself.
For example, the namespace bindings used for any XPath expression are determined by the namespace
declarations present in containing elements in the stylesheet. Other information may
be supplied externally or implicitly: an example is the current date and time.</p><p>The context information used in processing an XSLT stylesheet includes as a subset all the context
information required when evaluating XPath expressions. The XPath 2.0 specification defines a static
and dynamic context that the host language (in this case, XSLT) may initialize, which affects the
results of XPath expressions used in that context. XSLT augments the context with additional
information: this additional information is used firstly by XSLT constructs outside the scope of
XPath (for example, the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element), and secondly, by functions that are
defined in the XSLT specification (such as <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> and <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a>)
that are available for use in XPath expressions appearing within a stylesheet.</p><p>The static context for an expression or other construct in a stylesheet is determined by the place
in which it appears lexically. The details vary for different components of the static context, but in
general, elements within a stylesheet module affect the static context for their descendant elements
within the same stylesheet module.</p><p>The dynamic context is maintained as a stack. When an instruction or expression is evaluated, it
may add dynamic context information to the stack; when evaluation is complete, the dynamic context
reverts to its previous state. An expression that accesses information from the dynamic context
always uses the value at the top of the stack.</p><p>The most commonly used component of the dynamic context is the
<a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>. This is an implicit variable whose value
is the item (it may be a node or an atomic value) currently being processed. The value of the
context item can be referenced within an XPath expression using the expression <code>.</code> (dot).</p><p>Full details of the static and dynamic context are provided in <a href="#static-and-dynamic-context"><i>5.4 The Static and Dynamic Context</i></a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="parsing-and-serialization" id="parsing-and-serialization"/>2.6 Parsing and Serialization</h3><p>An XSLT <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> describes a process that
constructs a set of <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> from a set of
<a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source trees</a>.</p><p>The <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> does not describe how a
<a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> is constructed.
Some possible ways of constructing source trees
are described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.
Frequently
an <a title="implementation" href="#dt-implementation">implementation</a> will operate in conjunction
with an XML parser (or more strictly, in the
terminology of <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a>, an <em>XML processor</em>), to build a source
tree from an input XML document. An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> also provide an application programming
interface allowing the tree to be constructed directly, or allowing it to be supplied in the form of a
DOM Document object (see <a href="#DOM-Level-2-Core">[DOM Level 2]</a>). This is outside the scope of this specification.
Users should be aware, however, that since the input to the transformation is a tree conforming
to the XDM data model as described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, constructs that might exist in the
original XML document, or in the DOM, but which are not within the scope of the data model,
cannot be processed by the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> and cannot be guaranteed to
remain unchanged in the transformation output. Such constructs include CDATA section boundaries,
the use of entity references, and the DOCTYPE declaration and internal DTD subset.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-serialization" id="dt-serialization" title="serialization"/>A frequent requirement is to
output a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> as an XML document (or in other formats such as HTML).
This process is referred to as <b>serialization</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Like parsing, serialization is not part of the transformation
process, and it is not <span class="verb">required</span> that an XSLT processor <span class="verb">must</span> be able to perform
serialization. However, for pragmatic reasons, this specification describes declarations
(the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element and the <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> declarations,
see <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>), and attributes on the
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction, that allow a
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to specify the desired properties of a
serialized output file. When serialization is not being performed,
either because the implementation does not support the serialization option, or because
the user is executing the transformation in a way that does not invoke serialization, then
the content of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> and <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
declarations has no effect. Under these circumstances the processor
<span class="verb">may</span> report any errors in an <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> or <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
declaration, or in the serialization attributes of
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>, but is not <span class="verb">required</span> to do so.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="extensibility" id="extensibility"/>2.7 Extensibility</h3><p>XSLT defines a number of features that allow the language to be extended by
implementers, or, if implementers choose to provide the capability, by users. These features
have been designed, so far as possible, so that they can be used without sacrificing interoperability.
Extensions other than those explicitly defined in this specification are not permitted.</p><p>These features are all based on XML namespaces; namespaces are used to ensure that the
extensions provided by one implementer do not clash with those of a different implementer.</p><p>The most common way of extending the language is by providing additional functions, which
can be invoked from XPath expressions. These are known as
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>, and are described in
<a href="#extension-functions"><i>18.1 Extension Functions</i></a>.</p><p>It is also permissible to extend the language by providing new
<a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instructions</a>. These
are referred to as <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>,
and are described in <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>.
A stylesheet that uses extension instructions must declare that it is doing so by using
the <code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> attribute.</p><p>Extension instructions and
extension functions defined according to these rules <span class="verb">may</span> be provided by
the implementer of the XSLT processor, and the implementer <span class="verb">may</span> also provide
facilities to allow users to create further extension instructions and
extension functions.</p><p>This specification defines how extension instructions and extension functions
are invoked, but the facilities for creating new extension instructions and extension
functions are <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
For further details, see <a href="#extension"><i>18 Extensibility and Fallback</i></a>.</p><p>The XSLT language can also be extended by the use of
<a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">extension attributes</a> (see
<a href="#extension-attributes"><i>3.3 Extension Attributes</i></a>), and by means of
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>
(see <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>).</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="stylesheets-and-schemas" id="stylesheets-and-schemas"/>2.8 Stylesheets and XML Schemas</h3><p>An XSLT <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
can make use of information from a schema. An XSLT transformation can take place
in the absence of a
schema (and, indeed, in the absence of a DTD), but where the source document has
undergone schema validity assessment, the XSLT processor has access to the type
information associated with individual nodes, not merely to the untyped text.</p><p>Information from a schema can be used both statically (when the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is compiled),
and dynamically (during evaluation of the stylesheet to transform a source document).</p><p>There are places within a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>,
and within XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> and
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">patterns</a> in
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, where it is possible
to refer to named type definitions in a schema, or to element and attribute declarations.
For example, it is
possible to declare the types expected for the parameters of a function.
This is done using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SequenceType">SequenceType</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> syntax defined
in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-schema-component" id="dt-schema-component" title="schema component"/>Type definitions
and element and attribute declarations
are referred to collectively as <b>schema components</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-in-scope-schema-component" id="dt-in-scope-schema-component" title="in-scope schema component"/>The
<a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> that may be referenced by name in
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> are referred to as the
<b>in-scope schema components</b>. This set is the same throughout all the modules of a stylesheet.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The conformance rules for XSLT 2.0, defined in <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>, distinguish
between a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a> and a
<a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a>. As the names
suggest, a basic XSLT processor does not support the features of XSLT that require access to
schema information, either statically or dynamically.
A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that works with a basic
XSLT processor will produce the same results with a schema-aware XSLT processor
provided
that the source documents are untyped (that is, they are not validated against a schema). However,
if source documents are validated against a schema then the results may be different from the
case where they are not validated. Some constructs that work on untyped data may fail with typed data (for example,
an attribute of type <code>xs:date</code> cannot be used as an argument of the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-substring"><code>substring</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function) and other constructs may produce different results depending
on the data type (for example, given the element <code>&lt;product price="10.00" discount="2.00"/&gt;</code>,
the expression <code>@price gt @discount</code> will return true if the attributes have type <code>xs:decimal</code>,
but will return false if they are untyped).</p><p>There is a standard set of type definitions that are always available
as <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a> in every
stylesheet. These are defined in <a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a>. The set of built-in types
varies between a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a> and a
<a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a>.</p><p>The remainder of this section describes facilities that are available only with a
<a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a>.</p><p>Additional <a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> (type definitions,
element declarations, and attribute declarations) may be added to the
<a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>
by means of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration in a stylesheet.</p><p>The <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration may reference an external schema
document by means of a URI, or it may contain an inline <code>xs:schema</code> element.</p><p>It is only necessary to import a schema explicitly
if one or more of its <a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a>
are referenced explicitly by name in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>; it is not
necessary to import a schema merely because the stylesheet is used to process a
source document that has been assessed against that schema. It is possible to make use of
the information resulting from schema assessment (for example, the fact that a particular
attribute holds a date) even if no schema has been imported by the stylesheet.</p><p>Further, importing
a schema does not of itself say anything about the type of the source document that the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is expected to process. The imported type definitions can be used for temporary nodes
or for nodes on a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> just as much as for nodes in source documents.
It is possible to make assertions about the type of an input document by means of tests within the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
For example:</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e1810" id="d5e1810"/>Example: Asserting the Required Type of the Source Document</div><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="document-node(schema-element(my:invoice))" priority="2"&gt;
. . .
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="document-node()" priority="1"&gt;
&lt;xsl:message terminate="yes"&gt;Source document is not an invoice&lt;/xsl:message&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>This example will cause the transformation to fail with an error
message unless the document element of the source document is valid against
the top-level element declaration <code>my:invoice</code>, and has been annotated as such.</p></div><p>It is possible that a source document may contain nodes whose <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
is not one of the types imported by the stylesheet. This creates a potential problem because
in the case of an expression such as <code>data(.) instance of xs:integer</code> the system
needs to know whether the type named in the type annotation of the context node is derived
by restriction from the type <code>xs:integer</code>. This information is not explicitly
available in an XDM tree, as defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.
The implementation may choose one of several strategies for dealing with this situation:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The processor may signal a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a source document is found to contain a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that is not known to the processor.</p></li><li><p>The processor may maintain additional metadata, beyond that described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>,
that allows the source document to be processed as if all the necessary schema information had been imported
using <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>. Such metadata might be held in the data structure representing the
source document itself, or it might
be held in a system catalog or repository.</p></li><li><p>The processor may be configured to use a fixed set of schemas, which are automatically used
to validate all source documents before they can be supplied as input to a transformation. In this case
it is impossible for a source document to have a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the processor is not aware of.</p></li><li><p>The processor may be configured to treat the source document as if no schema processing had
been performed, that is, effectively to strip all type annotations from elements and attributes on input,
marking them instead as having type <code>xs:untyped</code> and <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>
respectively.</p></li></ol><p>Where a stylesheet author chooses to make assertions about the types of nodes or of
<a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variables</a> and <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameters</a>,
it is possible for an XSLT processor to perform static analysis of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> (that is, analysis in the absence of any
source document). Such analysis <span class="verb">may</span> reveal errors that would otherwise not be discovered until the
transformation is actually executed. An XSLT processor is not <span class="verb">required</span> to perform such static type-checking.
Under some circumstances (see <a href="#errors"><i>2.9 Error Handling</i></a>) type errors that
are detected early <span class="verb">may</span> be reported as static errors. In addition an implementation <span class="verb">may</span> report any condition found during
static analysis as a warning, provided that this does not prevent the stylesheet being evaluated as described
by this specification.</p><p>A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> can also control the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>
of nodes that it constructs in a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>,
or in <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary trees</a>. This can be done
in a number of ways.</p><ul><li><p>It is possible to request explicit validation of
a complete document, that is, a tree rooted at a document node. This applies
both to temporary trees constructed using the <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> (or <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>) instruction
and also to <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
constructed using <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>.
Validation is either strict or lax, as described in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>.
If validation of a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> fails
(strictly speaking, if the outcome of the validity assessment is
<code>invalid</code>), then the transformation fails, but in all other cases,
the element and attribute nodes of the
tree will be annotated with the names of the types to which these nodes conform.
These <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> will be discarded if the result tree is serialized as an XML document, but they
remain available when the result tree is passed to an application (perhaps another <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>) for
further processing.</p></li><li><p>It is also possible to validate individual element and attribute nodes
as they are constructed. This is done
using the <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> attributes of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>,
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, and <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instructions,
or the <code>xsl:type</code> and <code>xsl:validation</code> attributes of a literal result element.</p></li><li><p>When elements, attributes, or document nodes
are copied, either explicitly using the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instructions, or implicitly when nodes in a sequence are attached to a new
parent node, the options <code>validation="strip"</code> and <code>validation="preserve"</code> are
available, to control whether existing <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> are to be retained or not.</p></li></ul><p>When nodes in a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a> are validated,
type information is available
for use by operations carried out on the temporary tree,
in the same way as for a source document that has undergone schema assessment.</p><p>For details of how validation of element and attribute nodes works,
see <a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="errors" id="errors"/>2.9 Error Handling</h3><p><span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-static-error" id="dt-static-error" title="static error"/>An error that <span>can be</span> detected by examining
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> before execution starts (that is, before
the source document and values of stylesheet parameters
are available) is referred to as a <b>static error</b>.<span class="definition">]</span></p><p>Errors classified in this specification as static errors <span class="verb">must</span> be signaled by all
implementations: that is, the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> indicate that the error is
present. A static error <span class="verb">must</span> be signaled
even if it occurs in a part of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that is never evaluated.
Static errors are never recoverable. After signaling a static error, a processor
<span class="verb">may</span> continue for the purpose of signaling additional errors, but it <span class="verb">must</span> eventually terminate abnormally
without producing any <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.</p><p>There is an exception to this rule when the stylesheet specifies
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>
(see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>).</p><p>Generally, errors in the structure of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, or in the syntax
of XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>
contained in the stylesheet, are classified as
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static errors</a>.
Where this specification states that an element in the stylesheet <span class="verb">must</span> or <span class="verb">must not</span> appear in
a certain position, or that it <span class="verb">must</span> or <span class="verb">must not</span> have a particular attribute,
or that an attribute <span class="verb">must</span> or <span class="verb">must not</span>
have a value satisfying specified conditions,
then any contravention of this rule is a static error unless otherwise specified. </p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-dynamic-error" id="dt-dynamic-error" title="dynamic error"/>An error that is not detected until
a source document is being transformed is referred to as a
<b>dynamic error</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-recoverable-error" id="dt-recoverable-error" title="recoverable error"/>Some dynamic errors are classed as
<b>recoverable errors</b>. When a recoverable error occurs, this specification allows
the processor either to signal the error (by reporting
the error condition and terminating execution) or to take a defined recovery action and continue
processing.<span class="definition">]</span>
It is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether the error is signaled or the recovery action is taken.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-optional-recovery-action" id="dt-optional-recovery-action" title="optional recovery action"/>If an implementation chooses to recover from
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>, it <span class="verb">must</span> take
the <b>optional recovery action</b> defined for that error condition in this specification.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>When the implementation makes the choice
between signaling a dynamic error or recovering, it is not restricted in how it makes
the choice; for example, it <span class="verb">may</span> provide options that can be set by the user.
When an implementation chooses to recover from a dynamic error, it <span class="verb">may</span>
also take other action, such as logging a warning message.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-nonrec-dynamic-error" id="dt-nonrec-dynamic-error" title="non-recoverable dynamic error"/>A
<a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a> that is not recoverable is referred to as a
<b>non-recoverable dynamic error</b>. When a non-recoverable dynamic error occurs, the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal the error, and the transformation fails.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Because different implementations may optimize execution of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> in
different ways, the detection of dynamic errors is to some degree
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>. In
cases where an implementation is able to produce the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> without evaluating a
particular construct, the implementation is never <span class="verb">required</span> to
evaluate that construct solely in order to determine whether doing so causes a dynamic error.
For example, if a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> is declared but never referenced,
an implementation <span class="verb">may</span> choose whether or not to evaluate the variable declaration, which means that
if evaluating the variable declaration causes a dynamic error, some implementations will signal
this error and others will not.</p><p>There are some cases where this specification requires that a construct <span class="verb">must not</span>
be evaluated: for example, the content of an <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> instruction
<span class="verb">must not</span> be evaluated if the test condition is false. This means that an implementation
<span class="verb">must not</span> signal any dynamic errors that would arise if the construct were evaluated.</p><p>An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> signal a <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a>
before any source document is available, but only if it can determine that the error would
be signaled for every possible source document and every possible set of parameter values.
For example, some <a title="" href="#circularity">circularity</a> errors fall into this
category: see <a href="#circularity"><i>9.8 Circular Definitions</i></a>.</p><p>The XPath specification states (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-kinds-of-errors">Section
2.3.1 Kinds of Errors</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>)
that if any expression (at any level) can be evaluated during the analysis phase
(because all its explicit operands are known and it has no dependencies on the dynamic context),
then any error in performing this evaluation <span class="verb">may</span> be reported as a static error.
For XPath expressions used in an XSLT stylesheet, however, any
such errors <span class="verb">must not</span> be reported as static errors in the stylesheet unless they
would occur in every possible evaluation of that stylesheet; instead, they must be
signaled as dynamic errors, and signaled only if the XPath expression is actually evaluated.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e2192" id="d5e2192"/>Example: Errors in Constant Subexpressions</div><p>An XPath processor
may report statically that the expression <code>1 div 0</code> fails with a "divide by zero" error.
But suppose this XPath expression occurs in an XSLT construct such as:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="system-property('xsl:version') = '1.0'"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="1 div 0"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="xs:double('INF')"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;</pre></div><p>Then the XSLT processor must not report an error, because the relevant XPath construct
appears in a context where it will never be executed by an XSLT 2.0 processor. (An XSLT 1.0 processor
will execute this code successfully, returning positive infinity, because it uses double arithmetic
rather than decimal arithmetic.)</p></div><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-type-error" id="dt-type-error" title="type errors"/>Certain errors are classified as <b>type errors</b>.
A type error occurs when the value supplied as input to an operation is of the wrong type
for that operation, for example when an integer is supplied to an operation that expects
a node.<span class="definition">]</span> If a type error occurs in an instruction that is actually evaluated, then it <span class="verb">must</span>
be signaled in the same way as a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>. Alternatively, an implementation
<span class="verb">may</span> signal a type error during the analysis phase in the same way as a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>,
even if it occurs in part of the stylesheet that is never evaluated, provided it can establish
that execution of a particular construct would never succeed.</p><p>It is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether type errors are signaled statically.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e2231" id="d5e2231"/>Example: A Type Error</div><p>The following
construct contains a type error, because <code>42</code> is not allowed as an operand of the
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction. An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this as a
static error, even though the offending instruction will never be evaluated, and the type error would
therefore never be signaled as a dynamic error.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:if test="false()"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="42"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:if&gt;</pre></div><p>On the other hand, in the following example it is not possible to determine
statically whether the operand of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> will have a suitable
dynamic type. An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> produce a warning in such cases, but it <span class="verb">must not</span> treat
it as an error.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="para"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="p" as="item()"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="$p"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>If more than one error arises, an implementation is not <span class="verb">required</span> to signal any errors
other than the first one that it detects. It is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>
which of the several errors is signaled. This applies both to static errors and to
dynamic errors. An implementation is allowed to signal more than one error, but if any
errors have been signaled, it <span class="verb">must not</span> finish as if
the transformation were successful.</p><p>When a transformation signals one or more dynamic errors, the final state of
any persistent resources updated by the transformation is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>. Implementations
are not <span class="verb">required</span> to restore such resources to their initial state. In particular, where a transformation
produces multiple result documents, it is possible that one or more serialized result documents <span class="verb">may</span> be
written successfully before the transformation terminates, but the application cannot rely on
this behavior.</p><p>Everything said above about error handling applies equally to errors in evaluating XSLT
instructions, and errors in evaluating XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>.
Static errors and dynamic errors
may occur in both cases.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-serialization-error" id="dt-serialization-error" title="serialization error"/>If a transformation has successfully produced
a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>, it is still possible that errors may occur in serializing the result tree.
For example, it may be impossible to serialize the result tree using the encoding selected by the user.
Such an error is referred to as a <b>serialization error</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
If the processor performs serialization, then it <span class="verb">must</span>
do so as specified in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>,
and in particular it <span class="verb">must</span> signal any serialization errors that occur.</p><p>Errors are identified by a QName. For errors defined in this specification,
the namespace of the QName is always <code>http://www.w3.org/2005/xqt-errors</code> (and is therefore
not given explicitly), while the local part is an 8-character code in the form <var>PPSSNNNN</var>.
Here <var>PP</var> is always <code>XT</code> (meaning XSLT), and <var>SS</var> is one of <code>SE</code>
(static error), <code>DE</code> (dynamic error), <code>RE</code> (recoverable dynamic error), or
<code>TE</code> (type error). Note that the allocation of an error to one of these categories is purely
for convenience and carries no normative implications about the way the error is handled. Many errors,
for example, can be reported either dynamically or statically.</p><p>These error codes are used to label error conditions in this specification,
and are summarized in <a href="#error-summary"><i>E Summary of Error Conditions</i></a>).
They are provided primarily for ease of reference.
Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> use these codes when signaling errors, but they are
not <span class="verb">required</span> to do so. An API specification, however, <span class="verb">may</span>
require the use of error codes based on these QNames.
Additional errors defined by
an implementation (or by an application) <span class="verb">may</span> use
QNames in an implementation-defined (or user-defined) namespace without risk of collision.</p><p>Errors defined in the <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a> and <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> specifications use QNames
with a similar structure, in the same namespace. When errors occur in processing XPath expressions,
an XSLT processor <span class="verb">should</span> use the original error code reported by the XPath processor,
unless a more specific XSLT error code is available.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="stylesheet-structure" id="stylesheet-structure"/>3 Stylesheet Structure</h2><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stylesheet-module" id="dt-stylesheet-module" title="stylesheet module"/>A
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
consists of one or more <b>stylesheet modules</b>, each one forming
all or part of an XML document.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>A stylesheet module is represented by an XDM element node
(see <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>).
In the case of a standard stylesheet module, this
will be an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element. In the case of a simplified
stylesheet module, it can be any element (not in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>) that has
an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute.</p><p>Although stylesheet modules will commonly be
maintained in the form of documents conforming to XML 1.0 or XML 1.1, this specification
does not mandate such a representation. As with <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source trees</a>,
the way in which stylesheet modules are constructed, from textual XML or otherwise, is outside
the scope of this specification.</p></div><p>A stylesheet module is either a standard stylesheet module
or a simplified stylesheet module:</p><ul><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-standard-stylesheet-module" id="dt-standard-stylesheet-module" title="standard stylesheet module"/>A
<b>standard stylesheet module</b> is a tree, or part of a tree, consisting of an
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element
(see <a href="#stylesheet-element"><i>3.6 Stylesheet Element</i></a>) together with its descendant nodes and
associated attributes and namespaces.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-simplified-stylesheet-module" id="dt-simplified-stylesheet-module" title="simplified stylesheet module"/>A
<b>simplified stylesheet module</b> is a tree, or part
of a tree, consisting of a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>
together with its descendant nodes and
associated attributes and namespaces.
This element is not itself in the XSLT namespace, but it
<span class="verb">must</span> have an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute,
which implies that it <span class="verb">must</span> have a namespace node that
declares a binding for the XSLT namespace.
For further details see <a href="#simplified-stylesheet"><i>3.7 Simplified Stylesheet Modules</i></a>.
<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li></ul><p>Both forms of stylesheet module (standard and simplified) can exist either as an entire
XML document, or embedded as part of another XML document, typically
but not necessarily a source document that is to be processed
using the stylesheet.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-standalone-stylesheet-module" id="dt-standalone-stylesheet-module" title="standalone stylesheet module"/>A
<b>standalone stylesheet module</b> is a stylesheet module that comprises the whole of an XML document.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-embedded-stylesheet-module" id="dt-embedded-stylesheet-module" title="embedded stylesheet module"/>An
<b>embedded stylesheet module</b> is a stylesheet module that is
embedded within another XML document, typically the source document
that is being transformed.<span class="definition">]</span> (see <a href="#embedded"><i>3.11 Embedded Stylesheet Modules</i></a>).</p><p>There are thus four kinds of stylesheet module:</p><blockquote><p>standalone standard stylesheet modules<br/>standalone simplified stylesheet modules<br/>embedded standard stylesheet modules<br/>embedded simplified stylesheet modules</p></blockquote><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xslt-namespace" id="xslt-namespace"/>3.1 XSLT Namespace</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-xslt-namespace" id="dt-xslt-namespace" title="XSLT namespace"/>The <b>XSLT namespace</b>
has the URI <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</code>. It is used to identify
elements, attributes, and other names that have a special meaning defined in
this specification.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <code>1999</code> in the URI indicates the year in which
the URI was allocated by the W3C. It does not indicate the version of
XSLT being used, which is specified by attributes (see <a href="#stylesheet-element"><i>3.6 Stylesheet Element</i></a>
and <a href="#simplified-stylesheet"><i>3.7 Simplified Stylesheet Modules</i></a>).</p></div><p>XSLT <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processors</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> use the XML namespaces
mechanism <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a> to recognize elements and attributes from this
namespace. Elements from the XSLT namespace are recognized only in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> and not in the source document. The complete list of
XSLT-defined elements is specified in <a href="#element-syntax-summary"><i>D Element Syntax Summary</i></a>.
<a title="implementation" href="#dt-implementation">Implementations</a>
<span class="verb">must not</span> extend the XSLT
namespace with additional elements or attributes. Instead, any
extension <span class="verb">must</span> be in a separate namespace. Any namespace that is used
for additional instruction elements <span class="verb">must</span> be identified by means of the
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>
mechanism specified in <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>.</p><p>This specification uses a prefix of <code>xsl:</code> for referring
to elements in the XSLT namespace. However, XSLT stylesheets are free
to use any prefix, provided that there is a namespace declaration that
binds the prefix to the URI of the XSLT namespace.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Throughout this specification, an element or attribute that is in no
namespace, or an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> whose namespace part is an empty sequence, is
referred to as having a <b>null namespace URI</b>.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The conventions used for the names of
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>,
attributes and functions are that names are all lower-case, use
hyphens to separate words, and use abbreviations only if they already
appear in the syntax of a related language such as XML or
HTML. Names of types defined in XML Schema however, are regarded as single words and are capitalized
exactly as in XML Schema. This sometimes leads to composite function names such
as <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-current-dateTime"><code>current-dateTime</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="reserved-namespaces" id="reserved-namespaces"/>3.2 Reserved Namespaces</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-reserved-namespace" id="dt-reserved-namespace" title="reserved namespace"/>The
XSLT namespace, together with certain other namespaces
recognized by an XSLT processor, are classified as <b>reserved namespaces</b>
and <span class="verb">must</span> be used only as specified in this and related specifications.<span class="definition">]</span>
The reserved namespaces are those listed below.</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>, described in
<a href="#xslt-namespace"><i>3.1 XSLT Namespace</i></a>, is reserved.</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-standard-function-namespace" id="dt-standard-function-namespace" title="standard function namespace"/>The <b>standard function namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions</code>
is used for functions in the function library defined in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> and standard functions defined in this
specification.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="xml-namespace" id="xml-namespace" title="XML namespace"/>The <b>XML namespace</b>, defined
in <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a> as <code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>,
is used for attributes such as <code>xml:lang</code>, <code>xml:space</code>,
and <code>xml:id</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-schema-namespace" id="dt-schema-namespace" title="schema namespace"/>The <b>schema
namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</code> is used
as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
<span class="definition">]</span>. In a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> this namespace may be used to refer
to built-in schema datatypes and to the constructor functions associated with those datatypes.</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-schema-instance-namespace" id="dt-schema-instance-namespace" title="schema instance namespace"/>The <b>schema
instance namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</code> is used
as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
<span class="definition">]</span>. Attributes in this namespace, if they appear
in a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, are treated by the XSLT processor in the same way as any other attributes.</p></li><li><p>The
namespace <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code> is reserved for use as described in
<a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>. No element or attribute node can have a name in this
namespace, and although the prefix <code>xmlns</code> is implicitly bound to this
namespace, no namespace node will ever define this binding.</p></li></ul><p>Reserved namespaces may be used without restriction to refer to the names of
elements and attributes in source documents and result documents. As far as the XSLT processor is concerned,
reserved namespaces other than the XSLT namespace may be used without restriction in the names of
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result elements</a> and
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>,
and in the names of attributes of literal result elements or of
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>:
but other processors <span class="verb">may</span> impose restrictions or attach special meaning to them. Reserved namespaces <span class="verb">must not</span>
be used, however, in the names of stylesheet-defined objects such as
<a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variables</a> and <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>With the exception of the XML namespace, any of the above namespaces that
are used in a stylesheet must be explicitly declared with a namespace declaration. Although conventional
prefixes are used for these namespaces in this specification, any prefix may be used in a user stylesheet.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0080"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0080] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
to use a <a title="reserved namespace" href="#dt-reserved-namespace">reserved namespace</a> in the name of
a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>,
a <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>,
an <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>,
a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>,
a <a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal-format</a>,
a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> or <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a>,
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>, a
named <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>, or a
<a title="character map" href="#dt-character-map">character map</a>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="extension-attributes" id="extension-attributes"/>3.3 Extension Attributes</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-extension-attribute" id="dt-extension-attribute" title="extension attribute"/>An
element from the XSLT namespace may have any attribute not from
the XSLT namespace, provided that the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> (see <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>) of the
attribute has a non-null namespace URI. These attributes are referred to as <b>extension attributes</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
The presence of an extension attribute <span class="verb">must not</span> cause the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
produced by the transformation to be different from the result trees
that a conformant XSLT 2.0 processor might produce.
They <span class="verb">must not</span> cause the processor to fail to
signal an error that a conformant processor
is required to signal. This means that an extension attribute <span class="verb">must not</span>
change the effect of any <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a> except to the
extent that the effect is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
or <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.</p><p>Furthermore, if serialization is performed using one of the serialization
methods <code>xml</code>, <code>xhtml</code>, <code>html</code>, or <code>text</code>
described in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>, the presence
of an extension attribute must not cause the serializer to behave in a way
that is inconsistent with the mandatory provisions of that specification.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>
<a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">Extension attributes</a> may be used to
modify the behavior of <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a> and
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>. They may be used
to select processing options in cases where the specification leaves the behavior
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
or <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.
They may also be used for optimization hints, for diagnostics, or for documentation.</p><p>
<a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">Extension attributes</a>
<span class="verb">may</span> also be used to influence the behavior of the
serialization methods <code>xml</code>, <code>xhtml</code>, <code>html</code>, or <code>text</code>,
to the extent that the
behavior of the serialization method is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
or <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.
For example, an extension attribute might be used
to define the amount of indentation to be used when <code>indent="yes"</code> is
specified. If a serialization method other than one of these four is
requested (using a prefixed QName in the method parameter) then extension
attributes may influence its behavior in arbitrary ways. Extension
attributes <span class="verb">must not</span> be used to cause the four standard serialization methods
to behave in a non-conformant way, for example by failing to report
serialization errors that a serializer is <span class="verb">required</span> to report. An
implementation that wishes to provide such options must create a new
serialization method for the purpose.</p><p>An implementation that does not recognize the name of an extension attribute, or
that does not recognize its value, <span class="verb">must</span> perform the transformation as if the extension attribute
were not present. As always, it is permissible to produce warning messages.</p><p>The namespace used for an extension attribute will be copied to the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> in the normal way if it is in scope for a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal
result element</a>. This can be prevented using the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e2857" id="d5e2857"/>Example: An Extension Attribute for <code>xsl:message</code>
</div><p>The following code might be used to
indicate to a particular implementation that the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a>
instruction is to ask the user for confirmation before continuing with the transformation:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:message
abc:pause="yes"
xmlns:abc="http://vendor.example.com/xslt/extensions"&gt;Phase 1 complete&lt;/xsl:message&gt;
</pre></div><p>Implementations that do not recognize the namespace <code>http://vendor.example.com/xslt/extensions</code>
will simply ignore the extra attribute, and evaluate the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction in the
normal way.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0090"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0090] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> for
an element from the XSLT namespace to have an attribute
whose namespace is either null
(that is, an attribute with an unprefixed name) or the XSLT namespace, other than attributes defined
for the element in this document.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xslt-media-type" id="xslt-media-type"/>3.4 XSLT Media Type</h3><p>The media type <code>application/xslt+xml</code>
will be registered for XSLT stylesheet modules.</p><p>The proposed definition of the media type is at
<a href="#xslt-mime-definition"><i>B The XSLT Media Type</i></a>
</p><p>This media type <span class="verb">should</span> be used for an XML document containing a
<a title="standard stylesheet module" href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard stylesheet module</a>
at its top level, and it <span class="verb">may</span> also be used for a
<a title="simplified stylesheet module" href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified stylesheet module</a>. It
<span class="verb">should not</span> be used for an XML document containing an
<a title="embedded stylesheet module" href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded stylesheet module</a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="standard-attributes" id="standard-attributes"/>3.5 Standard Attributes</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-standard-attributes" id="dt-standard-attributes" title="standard attributes"/>There are a number of
<b>standard attributes</b> that may appear on any
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>: specifically
<code>version</code>, <code>exclude-result-prefixes</code>,
<code>extension-element-prefixes</code>,
<code>xpath-default-namespace</code>,
<code>default-collation</code>, and <code>use-when</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>These attributes may also appear on a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
but in this case, to distinguish them from user-defined attributes, the
names of the attributes are in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>.
They are thus typically
written as <code>xsl:version</code>, <code>xsl:exclude-result-prefixes</code>,
<code>xsl:extension-element-prefixes</code>,
<code>xsl:xpath-default-namespace</code>,
<code>xsl:default-collation</code>, or <code>xsl:use-when</code>.</p><p>It is <span class="verb">recommended</span> that all these attributes should also be permitted on
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>, but
this is at the discretion of the implementer of each extension instruction. They
<span class="verb">may</span> also be permitted on <a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>,
though they will only have any useful effect in the case of data elements that are designed to
behave like XSLT declarations or instructions.</p><p>In the following descriptions, these attributes are referred to
generically as <code>[xsl:]version</code>, and so on.</p><p>These attributes all affect the element they appear on,
together with any elements and attributes that have
that element as an ancestor. The
two forms with and without the XSLT namespace have the same effect;
the XSLT namespace is used for the attribute if and only if
its parent element is <em>not</em> in the XSLT namespace.</p><p>In the case of <code>[xsl:]version</code>,
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code>, and <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code>,
the value can be overridden by a different value for the
same attribute appearing on a descendant element. The effective value of the
attribute for a particular stylesheet element is determined by the innermost
ancestor-or-self element on which the attribute appears.</p><p>In an <a title="embedded stylesheet module" href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded stylesheet module</a>,
<a title="standard attributes" href="#dt-standard-attributes">standard attributes</a>
appearing on ancestors of the outermost element of the stylesheet module have no effect.</p><p>In the case of <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> and
<code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> the values are cumulative. For these
attributes, the value is given as
a whitespace-separated list of namespace prefixes, and the
effective value for an element is the combined set of
namespace URIs designated by the prefixes that appear in this
attribute for that element and any of its ancestor elements. Again, the
two forms with and without the XSLT namespace are equivalent.</p><p>The effect of the <code>[xsl:]use-when</code> attribute is
described in <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>.</p><p>Because these attributes may appear on any
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>, they are not listed
in the syntax summary of each individual element. Instead
they are listed and
described in the entry for the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> and
<a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> elements only.
This reflects the fact that these attributes are often used on the
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element only, in which case they apply to the entire
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>.</p><p>Note that the effect of these attributes does <em>not</em> extend to
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> referenced
by <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> or <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> declarations.</p><p>For the detailed effect of each attribute, see the following sections:</p><dl><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]version</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a> and <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>
</p></dd><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#unprefixed-qnames"><i>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</i></a>
</p></dd><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#lre-namespaces"><i>11.1.3 Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</i></a>
</p></dd><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>
</p></dd><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]use-when</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>
</p></dd><dt class="label">
<code>[xsl:]default-collation</code>
</dt><dd><p>see <a href="#default-collation-attribute"><i>3.6.1 The default-collation attribute</i></a>
</p></dd></dl></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="stylesheet-element" id="stylesheet-element"/>3.6 Stylesheet Element</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-stylesheet"/><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet<br/>  id? = <var>id</var><br/>  extension-element-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  exclude-result-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  <b>version</b> = <var>number</var><br/>  xpath-default-namespace? = <var>uri</var><br/>  default-validation? = "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  default-collation? = <var>uri-list</var><br/>  input-type-annotations? = "preserve" | "strip" | "unspecified"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-import">xsl:import</a>*, <var>other-declarations</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-transform"/><code>&lt;xsl:transform<br/>  id? = <var>id</var><br/>  extension-element-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  exclude-result-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  <b>version</b> = <var>number</var><br/>  xpath-default-namespace? = <var>uri</var><br/>  default-validation? = "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  default-collation? = <var>uri-list</var><br/>  input-type-annotations? = "preserve" | "strip" | "unspecified"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-import">xsl:import</a>*, <var>other-declarations</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:transform&gt;</code></p><p>A stylesheet module is represented by an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element in an XML document. <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> is allowed as
a synonym for <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>; everything
this specification says about the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element applies
equally to <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a>.</p><p>An <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> have a
<code>version</code> attribute, indicating the version of XSLT that
the stylesheet module requires.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0110"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0110] </span></a>The value of the <code>version</code> attribute
<span class="verb">must</span> be a number: specifically, it <span class="verb">must</span> be a
a valid instance of the type <code>xs:decimal</code> as defined in
<a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.
For this version of XSLT, the value <span class="verb">should</span> normally
be <code>2.0</code>. A value of <code>1.0</code> indicates that the stylesheet module
was written with the intention that it <span class="verb">should</span> be processed using an XSLT 1.0 processor.</p><p>If a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
that specifies <code>[xsl:]version="1.0"</code> in the
outermost element of the <a title="principal stylesheet module" href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal
stylesheet module</a> (that is, <code>version="1.0"</code> in the case of a
<a title="standard stylesheet module" href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard stylesheet module</a>, or
<code>xsl:version="1.0"</code> in the case of a <a title="simplified stylesheet module" href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified
stylesheet module</a>) is submitted to an XSLT 2.0 processor, the processor <span class="verb">should</span> output
a warning advising the user of possible incompatibilities, unless the user has requested otherwise.
The processor <span class="verb">must</span> then process the stylesheet
using the rules for <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards-compatible behavior</a>.
These rules require that if the processor does not support
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards-compatible behavior</a>, it <span class="verb">must</span>
signal an error and <span class="verb">must not</span> execute the transformation.</p><p>When the value of the <code>version</code> attribute is greater than 2.0,
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>
is enabled (see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>).</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>XSLT 1.0 allowed the <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute to take any numeric value,
and specified that if the value was not equal to 1.0, the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> would be executed in
forwards compatible mode. XSLT 2.0 continues to allow the attribute to take any unsigned decimal value.
A software product that includes both an XSLT 1.0 processor and
an XSLT 2.0 processor (or that can execute as either) may use the <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute to
decide which processor to invoke; such behavior is outside the scope of this specification.
When the stylesheet is executed with an XSLT 2.0 processor, the value
<code>1.0</code> is taken to indicate that the stylesheet module
was written with XSLT 1.0
in mind: if this value appears on the outermost element of the principal stylesheet module then
an XSLT 2.0 processor will either reject the stylesheet or execute it in backwards compatible
mode, as described above.
Setting <code>version="2.0"</code> indicates that the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is to be
executed with neither backwards nor forwards compatible behavior enabled. Any other value less than
<code>2.0</code> enables backwards compatible behavior, while any value greater than <code>2.0</code>
enables forwards compatible behavior.</p><p>When developing a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that is designed to execute under either XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0,
the recommended practice is to create two alternative <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>,
one specifying
<code>version="1.0"</code>, and the other specifying <code>version="2.0"</code>; these
modules can use <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> or <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> to incorporate
the common code. When running under an XSLT 1.0 processor, the <code>version="1.0"</code> module can
be selected as the <a title="principal stylesheet module" href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal stylesheet module</a>;
when running under an XSLT 2.0 processor, the <code>version="2.0"</code> module can
be selected as the <a title="principal stylesheet module" href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal stylesheet module</a>.
Stylesheet modules that are included or imported should specify <code>version="2.0"</code> if they make use of XSLT 2.0 facilities,
and <code>version="1.0"</code> otherwise.</p></div><p>The effect of the <code>input-type-annotations</code> attribute is described
in <a href="#stripping-annotations"><i>4.3 Stripping Type Annotations from a Source Tree</i></a>.</p><p>The <code>default-validation</code> attribute defines the default value
of the <code>validation</code> attribute of all <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, and <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instructions,
and of the <code>xsl:validation</code>
attribute of all <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result elements</a>. It also
determines the validation applied to the implicit
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> created in the absence of an
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction.
This default applies within the <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>:
it does not extend to included or imported stylesheet modules.
If the attribute is omitted, the default is <code>strip</code>.
The permitted values are <code>preserve</code> and <code>strip</code>.
For details of the effect of this attribute, see <a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0120"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0120] </span></a>An <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element <span class="verb">must not</span> have
any text node children. (This rule applies after stripping of
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> as described in
<a href="#stylesheet-stripping"><i>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</i></a>.)</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-top-level" id="dt-top-level" title="top-level"/>An element occurring as
a child of an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element is called a
<b>top-level</b> element.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-declaration" id="dt-declaration" title="declaration"/>Top-level
elements fall into two categories: declarations, and
user-defined data elements.
Top-level elements whose names are in the
<a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> are <b>declarations</b>.
Top-level elements in any other namespace are
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>
(see <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>)<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>The <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> elements
permitted in the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element are:</p><blockquote><p>
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>
</p></blockquote><p>Note that the <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements
can act either as <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a> or as <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instructions</a>.
A global variable or parameter is defined using a declaration; a local variable or parameter using an instruction.</p><p>If there are <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> elements, these <span class="verb">must</span> come before
any other elements. Apart from this, the child elements of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element may appear in any order. The ordering of these elements does not affect the results
of the transformation unless there are conflicting declarations (for example, two template rules
with the same priority that match the same node). In general, it is an error for a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
to contain such conflicting declarations,
but in some cases the processor is allowed to recover from the error by choosing the declaration that
appears last in the stylesheet.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="default-collation-attribute" id="default-collation-attribute"/>3.6.1 The <code>default-collation</code> attribute</h4><p>The <code>default-collation</code> attribute is a <a title="standard attributes" href="#dt-standard-attributes">standard attribute</a>
that may appear on any element in the XSLT namespace, or (as <code>xsl:default-collation</code>) on a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p><p>The attribute is used to specify the default collation used by all XPath expressions appearing in the attributes
of this element, or attributes of descendant elements, unless overridden by another <code>default-collation</code> attribute
on an inner element. It also determines the collation used by certain XSLT constructs (such as <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> and
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>) within its scope.</p><p>The value of the attribute is a whitespace-separated list of collation URIs.
If any of these URIs is a relative URI, then it is resolved relative to the base URI
of the attribute's parent element. If the implementation recognizes one or
more of the resulting absolute collation URIs,
then it uses the first one that it recognizes as the default collation.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0125"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0125] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of an <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code> attribute,
after resolving against the base URI, contains no URI that the implementation
recognizes as a collation URI.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The reason the attribute allows a list of collation URIs is that collation URIs will often be meaningful
only to one particular XSLT implementation. Stylesheets designed to run with several different implementations can
therefore specify several different collation URIs, one for use with each. To avoid the above error condition,
it is possible to specify the Unicode Codepoint Collation as the last collation URI in the list.</p></div><p>The <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code> attribute does not affect the collation used by <code>xsl:sort</code>.</p><p>In the absence of an <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code> attribute, the default collation
<span class="verb">may</span> be established by the calling application in an
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> way. The
<span class="verb">recommended</span> default, unless the user chooses otherwise, is to
use the Unicode codepoint collation.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="user-defined-top-level" id="user-defined-top-level"/>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</h4><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-data-element" id="dt-data-element" title="user-defined data element"/>In addition to
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a>,
the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element may contain
any element not from the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>,
provided that the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the element has a non-null namespace URI. Such
elements are referred to as <b>user-defined data elements</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0130"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0130] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element has
a child element whose name has a null namespace URI.
</p><p>An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> attach an
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
meaning to user-defined
data elements that appear in particular namespaces.
The set of namespaces that are recognized for such data elements is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
The presence of
a user-defined data element <span class="verb">must not</span> change the behavior of
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>
and functions defined in this document; for example, it is not
permitted for a user-defined data element to specify that
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> should use different rules to resolve
conflicts. The constraints on what user-defined data elements
can and cannot do are exactly the same as the constraints on <a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">extension
attributes</a>, described in <a href="#extension-attributes"><i>3.3 Extension Attributes</i></a>.
Thus, an implementation is always free to ignore user-defined data elements,
and <span class="verb">must</span> ignore such data elements without giving
an error if it does not recognize the namespace URI.
</p><p>User-defined data elements can provide, for example,</p><ul><li><p>information used by <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>
or <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>
(see <a href="#extension"><i>18 Extensibility and Fallback</i></a>),</p></li><li><p>information about what to do with any <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>,</p></li><li><p>information about how to construct <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source trees</a>,</p></li><li><p>optimization hints for the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>,</p></li><li><p>metadata about the stylesheet,</p></li><li><p>structured documentation for the stylesheet.</p></li></ul><p>A <a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data element</a>
<span class="verb">must not</span> precede an <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> element within a
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTSE0200">ERR XTSE0200</a>]</span>
</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="simplified-stylesheet" id="simplified-stylesheet"/>3.7 Simplified Stylesheet Modules</h3><p>A simplified syntax is allowed for a <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
that defines only a single template rule for the document node.
The stylesheet module may consist of
just a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>
(see <a href="#literal-result-element"><i>11.1 Literal Result Elements</i></a>) together with its contents.
The literal result element must have an <code>xsl:version</code>
attribute (and it must therefore also declare the XSLT namespace).
Such a stylesheet module is equivalent to a
standard stylesheet module whose <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element contains a
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> containing the literal result element,
minus its <code>xsl:version</code> attribute;
the template rule has a match <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> of <code>/</code>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e3824" id="d5e3824"/>Example: A Simplified Stylesheet</div><p>For example:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;html xsl:version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Expense Report Summary&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total Amount: &lt;xsl:value-of select="expense-report/total"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div><p>has the same meaning as</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Expense Report Summary&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total Amount: &lt;xsl:value-of select="expense-report/total"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div><p>Note that it is not possible, using a simplified stylesheet,
to request that the serialized output contains a <code>DOCTYPE</code> declaration.
This can only be done by using a standard stylesheet module, and using the
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element.</p></div><p>More formally, a simplified stylesheet module is
equivalent to the standard stylesheet module that would be generated by
applying the following transformation to the simplified stylesheet module,
invoking the transformation by calling the
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>
<code>expand</code>, with
the containing literal result element as the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>:
</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="expand"&gt;
&lt;xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="version" select="@xsl:version"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:element name="xsl:template"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="match"&gt;/&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:element&gt;
&lt;/xsl:element&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0150"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0150] </span></a>A <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a> that
is used as the outermost element of a
simplified stylesheet module <span class="verb">must</span> have
an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute. This
indicates the version of XSLT that the stylesheet requires.
For this version of XSLT, the value will normally be <code>2.0</code>; the
value <span class="verb">must</span> be a valid instance of the type
<code>xs:decimal</code> as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.</p><p>Other
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result elements</a> may also
have an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute. When the <code>xsl:version</code>
attribute is numerically less than
<code>2.0</code>, backwards-compatible processing behavior is enabled (see <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>).
When the <code>xsl:version</code> attribute is numerically greater than <code>2.0</code>,
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>
is enabled (see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>).</p><p>The allowed content of a literal result element when used as a
simplified stylesheet is the same as when it occurs within a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.
Thus, a literal result element used as the document element of
a simplified stylesheet cannot
contain <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a>.
Simplified stylesheets therefore cannot use
<a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variables</a>,
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>,
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>,
<a title="key" href="#dt-key">keys</a>,
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute-sets</a>, or
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definitions</a>.
In turn this means that the only useful way to initiate the transformation is to supply a document node as the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>, to be matched by the
implicit <code>match="/"</code> template rule using the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>. </p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="backwards" id="backwards"/>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-backwards-compatible-behavior" id="dt-backwards-compatible-behavior" title="backwards compatible behavior"/>An element
enables backwards-compatible behavior for itself, its
attributes, its descendants and their attributes if it has an
<code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute (see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>)
whose value is less than <code>2.0</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>An element
that has an <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute whose value is greater than or equal to <code>2.0</code>
disables backwards-compatible behavior for itself, its attributes, its
descendants and their attributes. The compatibility
behavior established by an element overrides
any compatibility behavior established by an ancestor element.</p><p>If an attribute containing an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> is processed with
backwards-compatible behavior, then the expression is evaluated with <a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a>
set to <code>true</code>. For details of this mode, see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#static_context">Section
2.1.1 Static Context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>.
Furthermore,
in such an expression any function call for which no implementation is
available (unless it uses the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>) is bound to a
fallback error function whose effect when evaluated is to raise a dynamic error
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE1425">ERR XTDE1425</a>]</span> . The effect is that with
backwards-compatible behavior enabled, calls
on <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>
that are not available in a particular implementation
do not cause an error unless the function call is actually evaluated. For
further details, see <a href="#extension-functions"><i>18.1 Extension Functions</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This might appear to contradict the specification of XPath
2.0, which states that a static error [XPST0017]
is raised when an expression
contains a call to a function that is not present (with matching name and
arity) in the static context. This apparent contradiction is resolved by
specifying that the XSLT processor constructs a static context for the
expression in which every possible function name and arity (other than names in
the <a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>)
is present; when no other implementation of
the function is available, the function call is bound to a fallback error
function whose run-time effect is to raise a dynamic error.</p></div><p>Certain XSLT constructs also produce different results when backwards-compatible behavior is enabled.
This is described separately for each such construct.</p><p>These rules do not apply to the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element,
whose <code>version</code> attribute
has an entirely different purpose: it is used to define the version of the output
method to be used for serialization.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>By making use of backwards-compatible behavior, it is possible
to write the stylesheet in a way that ensures that its results when processed with an XSLT 2.0 processor are
identical to the effects of processing the same stylesheet using an
XSLT 1.0 processor. The differences are described (non-normatively) in <a href="#incompatibilities"><i>J.1 Incompatible Changes</i></a>.
To assist with transition, some parts of a stylesheet may be processed with backwards compatible behavior enabled,
and other parts with this behavior disabled. All data values manipulated by an XSLT 2.0 processor are defined by
the XDM data model, whether or not the relevant expressions use backwards compatible behavior.
Because the same data model is used in both cases, expressions are fully composable. The result of evaluating
instructions or expressions with backwards compatible behavior is fully defined in the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0
specifications, it is not defined by reference to the XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 specifications. </p></div><p>It is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether a particular XSLT 2.0 implementation supports backwards-compatible behavior.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0160"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0160] </span></a>If an implementation does not support backwards-compatible
behavior, then it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if any element is evaluated that enables
backwards-compatible behavior.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>To write a stylesheet that works with both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 processors, while making
selective use of XSLT 2.0 facilities, it is necessary to understand both the rules for
backwards-compatible behavior in XSLT 2.0, and the rules for forwards-compatible
behavior in XSLT 1.0. If the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element specifies
<code>version="2.0"</code>, then an XSLT 1.0 processor will ignore XSLT 2.0
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a> that were not defined in XSLT 1.0, for
example <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> and
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>. If any new XSLT 2.0
instructions are used (for example <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> or <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>),
or if new XPath 2.0 features are used (for example, new functions, or syntax such as conditional
expressions, or calls to a function defined using <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>),
then the stylesheet must provide fallback behavior that relies on XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0
facilities only. The fallback behavior can be invoked by using the <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>
instruction, or by testing the results of the <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> or
<a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> functions, or by testing the value of the <code>xsl:version</code>
property returned by the <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="forwards" id="forwards"/>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</h3><p>The intent of forwards-compatible behavior is to make it possible to
write a stylesheet that takes advantage of features introduced in some version of
XSLT subsequent to XSLT 2.0, while retaining the ability to execute the
stylesheet with an XSLT 2.0 processor using appropriate fallback behavior.</p><p>It is always possible to write conditional code to run under different XSLT
versions by using the <code>use-when</code> feature described in <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>. The
rules for forwards-compatible behavior supplement this mechanism in two
ways:</p><ul><li><p>certain constructs in the stylesheet that mean nothing to an XSLT 2.0
processor are ignored, rather than being treated as errors.</p></li><li><p>explicit fallback behavior can be defined for instructions defined in a
future XSLT release, using the
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instruction.</p></li></ul><p>The detailed rules follow.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-forwards-compatible-behavior" id="dt-forwards-compatible-behavior" title="forwards-compatible behavior"/>An element enables
<b>forwards-compatible behavior</b> for itself, its
attributes, its descendants and their attributes if it has an
<code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute (see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>)
whose value is greater than <code>2.0</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>An element that has an <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute
whose value is less than or equal to <code>2.0</code>
disables forwards-compatible behavior for itself, its attributes, its
descendants and their attributes.
The compatibility behavior established by an element overrides
any compatibility behavior established by an ancestor element.</p><p>These rules do not apply to the <code>version</code> attribute
of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element, which has an entirely different purpose:
it is used to define the version of the output method to be used for serialization.</p><p>Within a section of a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> where forwards-compatible
behavior is enabled:</p><ul><li><p>if an element in the XSLT namespace appears
as a child of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element,
and XSLT 2.0 does not allow such elements to occur as children of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element,
then the element and its content <span class="verb">must</span> be ignored.</p></li><li><p>if an element has an attribute that XSLT 2.0 does not allow the element to have, then the
attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be ignored.</p></li><li><p>if an element in the XSLT namespace appears as part of a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, and XSLT 2.0 does not allow
such elements to appear as part of a sequence constructor, then:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>If the element has one or more <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children, then no error
is reported either statically or dynamically, and the result of evaluating the instruction is the concatenation of
the sequences formed by evaluating the sequence constructors within its
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children, in document order. Siblings of the <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>
elements are ignored, even if they are valid XSLT 2.0 instructions.</p></li><li><p>If the element has no <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children, then a static error is reported in the
same way as if forwards-compatible behavior were not enabled.</p></li></ol></li></ul><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e4183" id="d5e4183"/>Example: Forwards Compatible Behavior</div><p>For example,
an XSLT 2.0 <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> will
process the following stylesheet without error, although the
stylesheet includes elements from
the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> that are not
defined in this specification:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="17.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:exciting-new-17.0-feature&gt;
&lt;xsl:fly-to-the-moon/&gt;
&lt;xsl:fallback&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;XSLT 17.0 required&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry, this stylesheet requires XSLT 17.0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/xsl:fallback&gt;
&lt;/xsl:exciting-new-17.0-feature&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If a stylesheet depends crucially on a <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>
introduced by a version of XSLT after 2.0, then
the stylesheet can use an <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> element with
<code>terminate="yes"</code> (see <a href="#message"><i>17 Messages</i></a>) to ensure
that implementations that conform to an earlier version of XSLT will not silently ignore the
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e4214" id="d5e4214"/>Example: Testing the XSLT Version</div><p>For example,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="18.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;xsl:important-new-17.0-declaration/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="number(system-property('xsl:version')) lt 17.0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:message terminate="yes"&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;Sorry, this stylesheet requires XSLT 17.0.&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/xsl:message&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="combining-modules" id="combining-modules"/>3.10 Combining Stylesheet Modules</h3><p>XSLT provides two mechanisms to construct
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> from multiple
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>:</p><ul><li><p>an inclusion mechanism that allows stylesheet modules to be combined
without changing the semantics of the modules being combined,
and</p></li><li><p>an import mechanism that allows stylesheet modules to override each
other.</p></li></ul><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="locating-modules" id="locating-modules"/>3.10.1 Locating Stylesheet Modules</h4><p>The include and import mechanisms use two declarations, <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> and
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>, which are defined in the sections that follow.</p><p>These declarations use an <code>href</code> attribute, whose value is a
<a title="URI Reference" href="#dt-uri-reference">URI reference</a>,
to identify the <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a> to be included
or imported. If the value of this
attribute is a relative URI, it is resolved as described in
<a href="#uri-references"><i>5.8 URI References</i></a>.</p><p>After resolving against the base URI, the way in which the URI reference is
used to locate a representation of a
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>, and the way in which
the stylesheet module is constructed from that representation, are
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. In particular,
it is implementation-defined which URI schemes are supported, whether
fragment identifiers are supported, and what media types are supported.
Conventionally, the URI is a reference to a resource containing the
stylesheet module as a source XML document, or it may include a fragment
identifier that selects an embedded stylesheet module within a source XML
document; but the implementation is free to use other mechanisms to locate
the stylesheet module identified by the URI reference.</p><p>The referenced <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
may be any of the four kinds of stylesheet module:
that is, it may be
<a title="standalone stylesheet module" href="#dt-standalone-stylesheet-module">standalone</a> or
<a title="embedded stylesheet module" href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded</a>, and it may be
<a title="standard stylesheet module" href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard</a> or
<a title="simplified stylesheet module" href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified</a>. If it is a
<a title="simplified stylesheet module" href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified stylesheet module</a> then
it is transformed into the equivalent <a title="standard stylesheet module" href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard stylesheet module</a>
by applying the transformation described in <a href="#simplified-stylesheet"><i>3.7 Simplified Stylesheet Modules</i></a>.</p><p>Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> choose to accept
URI references containing a fragment identifier defined
by reference to the XPointer specification (see <a href="#xptr-framework">[XPointer Framework]</a>). Note that if
the implementation does not support the use of fragment identifiers in the URI reference,
then it will not be possible to include an <a title="embedded stylesheet module" href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded
stylesheet module</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0165"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0165] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the processor is not able to retrieve the resource
identified by the URI reference, or if the resource that is retrieved does
not contain a stylesheet module conforming to this specification.
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="include" id="include"/>3.10.2 Stylesheet Inclusion</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-include"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:include<br/>  <b>href</b> = <var>uri-reference</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>A stylesheet module may include another stylesheet module using an
<a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> declaration.</p><p>The <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> declaration
has a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>href</code> attribute whose value is a URI reference
identifying the stylesheet module to be included. This attribute is used as described
in <a href="#locating-modules"><i>3.10.1 Locating Stylesheet Modules</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0170"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0170] </span></a>An <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="top-level" href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a> element.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stylesheet-level" id="dt-stylesheet-level" title="stylesheet level"/>A <b>stylesheet level</b>
is a collection of <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> connected
using <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> declarations:
specifically, two stylesheet modules <var>A</var> and <var>B</var> are part of the same
stylesheet level if one of them includes the other by means of an <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a>
declaration, or if there is a third stylesheet module <var>C</var> that is in the same
stylesheet level as both <var>A</var> and <var>B</var>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-declaration-order" id="dt-declaration-order" title="declaration order"/>The
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a> within a
<a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet level</a> have a total ordering known
as <b>declaration order</b>. The order of declarations within a stylesheet
level is the same as the document order that would result if each stylesheet module were
inserted textually in place of the <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element that references it.<span class="definition">]</span>
In other respects, however, the effect of <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> is not equivalent to
the effect that would be obtained by textual inclusion.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0180"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0180] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if a stylesheet module
directly or indirectly includes itself.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is not intrinsically an error for a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
to include the same module more than once. However, doing so can cause errors
because of duplicate definitions. Such multiple inclusions are less
obvious when they are indirect. For example, if stylesheet
<var>B</var> includes stylesheet <var>A</var>, stylesheet <var>C</var>
includes stylesheet <var>A</var>, and stylesheet <var>D</var> includes
both stylesheet <var>B</var> and stylesheet <var>C</var>, then
<var>A</var> will be included indirectly by <var>D</var> twice. If
all of <var>B</var>, <var>C</var> and <var>D</var> are used as
independent stylesheets, then the error can be avoided by separating
everything in <var>B</var> other than the inclusion of <var>A</var>
into a separate stylesheet <var>B'</var> and changing <var>B</var> to
contain just inclusions of <var>B'</var> and <var>A</var>, similarly
for <var>C</var>, and then changing <var>D</var> to include
<var>A</var>, <var>B'</var>, <var>C'</var>.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="import" id="import"/>3.10.3 Stylesheet Import</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-import"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:import<br/>  <b>href</b> = <var>uri-reference</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>A stylesheet module may import another
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a> using an <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>.
Importing a stylesheet module is the same
as including it (see <a href="#include"><i>3.10.2 Stylesheet Inclusion</i></a>) except that
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>
and other <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a> in the
importing module take precedence over
template rules and declarations in the imported module; this is
described in more detail below.</p><p>The <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> declaration
has a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>href</code> attribute whose value is a URI reference
identifying the stylesheet module to be included. This attribute is used as described
in <a href="#locating-modules"><i>3.10.1 Locating Stylesheet Modules</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0190"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0190] </span></a>An <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> element
<span class="verb">must</span> be a <a title="top-level" href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a> element.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0200"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0200] </span></a>The
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> element children <span class="verb">must</span> precede all other
element children of an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element, including
any <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element children and any
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e4604" id="d5e4604"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:import</code>
</div><p>For example,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;xsl:import href="article.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:import href="bigfont.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute-set name="note-style"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-style"&gt;italic&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:attribute-set&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-import-tree" id="dt-import-tree" title="import tree"/>The
<a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet levels</a>
making up a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> are
treated as forming an <b>import tree</b>. In the import tree,
each stylesheet level has one child for each
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> declaration that it contains.<span class="definition">]</span> The ordering
of the children is the <a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>
of the <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> declarations within their stylesheet level.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-import-precedence" id="dt-import-precedence" title="import precedence"/>A <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>
<var>D</var> in the stylesheet
is defined to have lower <b>import precedence</b> than another
declaration <var>E</var> if the stylesheet level containing <var>D</var> would be
visited before the stylesheet level containing <var>E</var> in a
post-order traversal of the import tree (that is, a traversal of the
import tree in which a stylesheet level is visited
after its children). Two declarations within the same stylesheet level have
the same import precedence.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>For example, suppose</p><ul><li><p>stylesheet module <var>A</var> imports stylesheet modules <var>B</var>
and <var>C</var> in that order;</p></li><li><p>stylesheet module <var>B</var> imports stylesheet module
<var>D</var>;</p></li><li><p>stylesheet module <var>C</var> imports stylesheet module
<var>E</var>.</p></li></ul><p>Then the import tree has the following structure:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
A
|
+---+---+
| |
B C
| |
D E
</pre></div><p>The order of import precedence (lowest first) is
<var>D</var>, <var>B</var>, <var>E</var>, <var>C</var>, <var>A</var>.</p><p>In general, a <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>
with higher import precedence takes precedence over a declaration with
lower import precedence. This is defined in detail for each kind of declaration.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0210"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0210] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a stylesheet module directly or indirectly imports itself.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The case where a stylesheet module with a particular
URI is imported several times is not treated specially. The effect is exactly the same as if
several stylesheet modules with different URIs but identical content were imported. This might or might
not cause an error, depending on the content of the stylesheet module.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="embedded" id="embedded"/>3.11 Embedded Stylesheet Modules</h3><p>An <a title="embedded stylesheet module" href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded stylesheet module</a>
is a <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a> whose containing element is not
the outermost element of the containing XML document. Both
<a title="standard stylesheet module" href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard stylesheet modules</a> and
<a title="simplified stylesheet module" href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified stylesheet modules</a>
may be embedded in this way.</p><p>Two situations where embedded stylesheets may be useful are:</p><ul><li><p>The stylesheet may be embedded in the source document to be transformed.</p></li><li><p>The stylesheet may be embedded in an XML document that describes a sequence of processing
of which the XSLT transformation forms just one part.</p></li></ul><p>The <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element <span class="verb">may</span> have an <code>id</code>
attribute to facilitate reference to the stylesheet module within the containing document.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In order for such an attribute value to be used as a fragment
identifier in a URI, the XDM attribute node must generally have the
<code>is-id</code> property: see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-is-id">Section
5.5 is-id Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>. This property will typically be set
if the attribute is defined in a DTD as being of type <code>ID</code>, or if is defined in a schema as being
of type <code>xs:ID</code>. It is also necessary that the media type of the containing document should
support the use of ID values as fragment identifiers. Such support is widespread in existing products, and
is expected to be endorsed in respect of the media type <code>application/xml</code> by a future
revision of <a href="#RFC3023">[RFC3023]</a>.</p><p>An alternative, if the implementation supports it, is to
use an <code>xml:id</code> attribute. XSLT allows this attribute (like other namespaced attributes)
to appear on any <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e4799" id="d5e4799"/>Example: The <code>xml-stylesheet</code> Processing Instruction</div><p>The following example shows how the <code>xml-stylesheet</code>
processing instruction (see <a href="#xml-stylesheet">[XML Stylesheet]</a>) can be used to allow a
source document to contain its own stylesheet. The URI reference uses a
relative URI with a fragment identifier to locate the
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;?xml-stylesheet type="application/xslt+xml" href="#style1"?&gt;
&lt;!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd"&gt;
&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;xsl:stylesheet id="style1"
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt;
&lt;xsl:import href="doc.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="id('foo')"&gt;
&lt;fo:block font-weight="bold"&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="xsl:stylesheet"&gt;
&lt;!-- ignore --&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;para id="foo"&gt;
...
&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;
</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>A stylesheet module that is embedded in the document to which it is
to be applied typically needs
to contain a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> that specifies that
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> elements are to be ignored.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The above example uses the pseudo-attribute <code>type="application/xslt+xml"</code>
in the <code>xml-stylesheet</code> processing instruction to denote an XSLT stylesheet. This usage
is subject to confirmation:
see <a href="#xslt-media-type"><i>3.4 XSLT Media Type</i></a>.
In the absence of a registered media type for XSLT stylesheets, some vendors' products
have adopted different conventions, notably <code>type="text/xsl"</code>.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Support for the <code>xml-stylesheet</code> processing instruction is not
required for conformance with this Recommendation. Implementations are not
constrained in the mechanisms they use to identify a stylesheet when a transformation is initiated:
see <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="conditional-inclusion" id="conditional-inclusion"/>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</h3><p>Any element in the XSLT namespace may have a <code>use-when</code> attribute whose
value is an XPath expression that can be evaluated statically. If the attribute is present
and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-ebv">effective boolean value</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> of the
expression is false, then the element, together with all the nodes having
that element as an ancestor, is effectively excluded from the
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>. When a node
is effectively excluded from a stylesheet module the stylesheet module has the same effect
as if the node were not there. Among other things this means that no static or dynamic errors
will be reported in respect of the element and its contents, other than errors in the
<code>use-when</code> attribute itself.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This does not apply to XML parsing or validation errors, which
will be reported in the usual way.
It also does not apply to attributes
that are necessarily processed
before <code>[xsl:]use-when</code>, examples being <code>xml:space</code>
and <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code>.</p></div><p>A <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
or any other element within a
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a> that is not in the XSLT namespace,
may similarly carry an <code>xsl:use-when</code> attribute.</p><p>If the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element itself is
effectively excluded, the effect is to exclude all the children of the
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element, but not the
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element or its attributes.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This allows all the declarations that depend on the same condition to be
included in one stylesheet module, and for their inclusion or exclusion to be controlled
by a single <code>use-when</code> attribute at the level of the module.</p></div><p>Conditional element exclusion happens after stripping of whitespace text nodes from the
stylesheet, as described in <a href="#stylesheet-stripping"><i>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</i></a>.</p><p>There are no syntactic constraints on the XPath expression that can be used as the value of the
<code>use-when</code> attribute. However, there are severe constraints on the information provided
in its evaluation context. These constraints are designed to ensure that the expression can be
evaluated at the earliest possible stage of stylesheet processing, without any dependency
on information contained in the stylesheet itself or in any source document.</p><p>Specifically, the components of the static and dynamic context are defined by the following two tables:</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5" width="100%"><caption>Static Context Components for <code>use-when</code> Expressions</caption><col align="left" width="30%" span="1"/><col align="left" span="1"/><thead><tr><th>Component</th><th>Value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</td><td>false</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope namespaces</td><td>determined by the in-scope namespaces for the containing element
in the stylesheet</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Default element/type namespace</td><td>determined by the <code>xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute
if present (see <a href="#unprefixed-qnames"><i>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</i></a>); otherwise the null namespace</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Default function namespace</td><td>The <a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope type definitions</td><td>The type definitions that would be available in the absence of any
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope element declarations</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope attribute declarations</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope variables</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope functions</td><td>The <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core functions</a>
defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>,
together with the functions <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a>, <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a>,
<a href="#function-type-available"><code>type-available</code></a>,
and <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> defined in this specification, plus
the set of extension functions that are
present in the static context of every XPath expression (other than a use-when expression) within the
content of the element that is the parent of the <code>use-when</code> attribute.
Note that <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a> are
<em>not</em> included in the context, which means that the function <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> will
return <code>false</code> in respect of such functions. The effect of this
rule is to ensure that <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> returns true in respect of functions that
can be called within the scope of the <code>use-when</code> attribute. It also has the effect that
these extensions functions will be recognized within the <code>use-when</code> attribute itself;
however, the fact that a function is available in this sense gives no guarantee that a call on the
function will succeed.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">In scope collations</td><td>Implementation-defined</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Default collation</td><td>The Unicode Codepoint Collation</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Base URI</td><td>The base URI of the containing element in the stylesheet</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Statically known documents</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Statically known collections</td><td>None</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="5" width="100%"><caption>Dynamic Context Components for <code>use-when</code> Expressions</caption><col align="left" width="30%" span="1"/><col align="left" span="1"/><thead><tr><th>Component</th><th>Value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Context item, position, and size</td><td>Undefined</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Dynamic variables</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Current date and time</td><td>Implementation-defined</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Implicit timezone</td><td>Implementation-defined</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Available documents</td><td>None</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Available collections</td><td>None</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Within a <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>,
all expressions contained in <code>[xsl:]use-when</code>
attributes are evaluated in a single <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#execution-scope">execution scope</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>.
This need not be
the same execution scope as that used for <code>[xsl]:use-when</code> expressions in other
stylesheet modules, or as that used when evaluating XPath expressions appearing
elsewhere in the stylesheet module. This means that a function such as
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-current-date"><code>current-date</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> will return the same result when called in different
<code>[xsl:]use-when</code> expressions within the same stylesheet module, but will not
necessarily return the same result as the same call in an <code>[xsl:]use-when</code>
expression within a different stylesheet module, or as a call on
the same function executed during the transformation proper.</p><p>The use of <code>[xsl:]use-when</code> is illustrated in the following examples.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e5143" id="d5e5143"/>Example: Using Conditional Exclusion to Achieve Portability</div><p>This example demonstrates the use of the <code>use-when</code> attribute to
achieve portability of a stylesheet across schema-aware and non-schema-aware processors.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:import-schema schema-location="http://example.com/schema"
use-when="system-property('xsl:is-schema-aware')='yes'"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"
use-when="system-property('xsl:is-schema-aware')='yes'"
priority="2"&gt;
&lt;xsl:result-document validation="strict"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The effect of these declarations is that a non-schema-aware processor ignores the
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration and the first template rule, and therefore
generates no errors in respect of the schema-related constructs in these declarations.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e5158" id="d5e5158"/>Example: Including Variant Stylesheet Modules</div><p>This example includes different stylesheet modules depending on which XSLT processor
is in use.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:include href="module-A.xsl"
use-when="system-property('xsl:vendor')='vendor-A'"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:include href="module-B.xsl"
use-when="system-property('xsl:vendor')='vendor-B'"/&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="built-in-types" id="built-in-types"/>3.13 Built-in Types</h3><p>Every XSLT 2.0 processor includes the following named type definitions
in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>:</p><ul><li><p>All the primitive atomic types defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>,
with the exception of <code>xs:NOTATION</code>. That is:
<code>xs:string</code>,
<code>xs:boolean</code>,
<code>xs:decimal</code>,
<code>xs:double</code>,
<code>xs:float</code>,
<code>xs:date</code>,
<code>xs:time</code>,
<code>xs:dateTime</code>,
<code>xs:duration</code>,
<code>xs:QName</code>,
<code>xs:anyURI</code>,
<code>xs:gDay</code>,
<code>xs:gMonthDay</code>,
<code>xs:gMonth</code>,
<code>xs:gYearMonth</code>,
<code>xs:gYear</code>,
<code>xs:base64Binary</code>, and
<code>xs:hexBinary</code>.</p></li><li><p>The derived atomic type <code>xs:integer</code> defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.</p></li><li><p>The types <code>xs:anyType</code> and <code>xs:anySimpleType</code>.</p></li><li><p>The following types defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>:
<code>xs:yearMonthDuration</code>,
<code>xs:dayTimeDuration</code>,
<code>xs:anyAtomicType</code>,
<code>xs:untyped</code>, and
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p></li></ul><p>A <a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a> additionally supports:</p><ul><li><p>All other built-in types defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>
</p></li><li><p>User-defined types, and element and attribute declarations, that are
imported using an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration
as described in <a href="#import-schema"><i>3.14 Importing Schema Components</i></a>. These may include both simple and complex types.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The names that are imported from the XML Schema namespace do not include all the
names of top-level types defined in either the Schema for Schemas or the Schema for Datatypes. The Schema
for Datatypes, as well as defining built-in types such as <code>xs:integer</code> and <code>xs:double</code>,
also defines types that are intended for use only within the Schema for DataTypes, such as
<code>xs:derivationControl</code>. A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that is designed to process XML Schema documents as its
input or output may import the Schema for Schemas.</p></div><p>An implementation may define mechanisms that allow additional
<a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> to be added to the
<a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a> for the
stylesheet. For example, the mechanisms used to define
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>
(see <a href="#extension-functions"><i>18.1 Extension Functions</i></a>) may also be used to
import the types used in the interface to such functions.</p><p>These <a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> are the only ones that may be
referenced in XPath expressions within the stylesheet, or in the
<code>[xsl:]type</code> and <code>as</code> attributes of those elements that permit these attributes.</p><p>For a Basic XSLT Processor, schema built-in types that are not included in the
static context (for example, <code>xs:NCName</code>) are "unknown types" in the sense of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-sequencetype-matching">Section
2.5.4 SequenceType Matching</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. In the language of that section, a Basic XSLT Processor
<span class="verb">must</span> be able to determine whether these unknown types are derived from known
schema types such as <code>xs:string</code>. The purpose of this rule is to ensure that
system functions such as <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-local-name-from-QName"><code>local-name-from-QName</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, which is defined to return
an <code>xs:NCName</code>, behave correctly. A stylesheet that uses a Basic XSLT Processor
will not be able to test whether the returned value is an <code>xs:NCName</code>, but it will
be able to use it as if it were an <code>xs:string</code>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="import-schema" id="import-schema"/>3.14 Importing Schema Components</h3><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The facilities described in this section are not available
with a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>.
They require a <a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a>,
as described in <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>.</p></div><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-import-schema"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:import-schema<br/>  namespace? = <var>uri-reference</var><br/>  schema-location? = <var>uri-reference</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: xs:schema? --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:import-schema&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration is used to identify
<a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> (that is,
top-level type definitions and
top-level element and attribute declarations)
that need to be available statically, that is, before any source document is
available. Names of such components used statically within the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> must refer to an
<a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema component</a>,
which means they must either be built-in types as defined in <a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a>,
or they must be imported using an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.</p><p>The <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration identifies a
namespace containing the names of the components to be imported
(or indicates that components whose names are in no namespace are to be imported).
The effect is that the names of top-level element and
attribute declarations and type definitions from this namespace (or non-namespace)
become available for use within
XPath expressions in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, and within other stylesheet
constructs such as the <code>type</code> and
<code>as</code> attributes of various <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>.</p><p>The same schema components are available in all stylesheet modules; importing
components in one stylesheet module makes them available throughout the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p><p>The <code>namespace</code> and <code>schema-location</code> attributes are both optional.</p><p>If the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> element contains an
<code>xs:schema</code> element, then the <code>schema-location</code>
attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be absent, and one of the following
<span class="verb">must</span> be true:</p><ul><li><p>the <code>namespace</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
element and the <code>targetNamespace</code> attribute of the <code>xs:schema</code>
element are both absent (indicating a no-namespace schema), or</p></li><li><p>the <code>namespace</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
element and the <code>targetNamespace</code> attribute of the <code>xs:schema</code>
element are both present and both have the same value, or</p></li><li><p>the <code>namespace</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
element is absent and the <code>targetNamespace</code> attribute of
the <code>xs:schema</code> element is present, in which case the target namespace
is as given on the <code>xs:schema</code> element.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0215"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0215] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
element that contains an <code>xs:schema</code> element has a <code>schema-location</code> attribute,
or if it has a <code>namespace</code> attribute that conflicts with the target namespace
of the contained schema.
</p><p>If two <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declarations specify the same namespace,
or if both specify no namespace, then only the
one with highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> is used.
If this leaves more than one, then all the declarations at the highest import precedence
are used (which may cause conflicts, as described below).</p><p>After discarding any <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declarations under the above rule, the
effect of the remaining <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declarations is
defined in terms of a hypothetical document called the synthetic schema document,
which is constructed as follows. The synthetic schema document defines an arbitrary target namespace
that is different from any namespace actually used by the application, and it contains
<code>xs:import</code> elements corresponding one-for-one with the
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declarations in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, with the following correspondence:</p><ul><li><p>The <code>namespace</code> attribute of the <code>xs:import</code> element is copied from the <code>namespace</code>
attribute of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration if it is explicitly present, or is implied by the
<code>targetNamespace</code> attribute of a contained <code>xs:schema</code> element,
and is absent if it is absent.</p></li><li><p>The <code>schemaLocation</code> attribute of the <code>xs:import</code> element is copied from the <code>schema-location</code>
attribute of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration if present, and is absent if it is absent.
If there is a contained <code>xs:schema</code> element, the effective value of the
<code>schemaLocation</code> attribute is a URI referencing a document containing a copy of the <code>xs:schema</code>
element.</p></li><li><p>The base URI of the <code>xs:import</code> element is the same as the base URI
of the <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.</p></li></ul><p>The schema components included
in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>
(that is, the components whose names are available
for use within the stylesheet)
are the top-level element and attribute declarations and type definitions that
are available for reference within the synthetic schema document. See <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
(section 4.2.3, <em>References to schema components across namespaces</em>).</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0220"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0220] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the
synthetic schema document does not satisfy the constraints described in
<a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a> (section 5.1, <em>Errors in Schema Construction and Structure</em>).
This includes, without loss of generality, conflicts such as multiple definitions of the same name.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The synthetic schema document does not need to be constructed by a real implementation. It is purely
a mechanism for defining the semantics of <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> in terms of rules that
already exist within the XML Schema specification. In particular, it implicitly defines the
rules that determine whether the set of <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declarations are
mutually consistent.</p><p>These rules do not cause names to be imported transitively. The fact that
a name is available for reference within a schema document A does not of itself make the name available
for reference in a stylesheet that imports the target namespace of schema document A.
(See <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a> section 3.15.3, Constraints on XML Representations of Schemas.)
The stylesheet must import all the namespaces containing names that it actually references.</p><p>The <code>namespace</code> attribute indicates that a schema for the given namespace is required
by the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>. This information may be enough on its own
to enable an implementation to locate
the required schema components. The <code>namespace</code> attribute may be omitted
to indicate that a schema for names in no namespace is being imported. The zero-length
string is not a valid namespace URI, and is therefore not a valid value for the
<code>namespace</code> attribute.</p><p>The <code>schema-location</code> attribute is a <a title="URI Reference" href="#dt-uri-reference">URI Reference</a>
that gives a hint indicating where a schema document
or other resource containing the required definitions may be found. It is likely that a
<a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a> will
be able to process a schema document found at this location.</p><p>The XML Schema specification gives implementations flexibility in how to handle
multiple imports for the same namespace. Multiple imports do not cause
errors if the definitions do not conflict.</p><p>A consequence of these rules is that it is not intrinsically an error if no schema
document can be located for a namespace identified in an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.
This will cause an error only if it results in the stylesheet containing references to names that have not
been imported.</p><p>An inline schema document (using an <code>xs:schema</code> element as a child of the <code>xsl:import-schema</code>
element) has the same status as an external schema document, in the sense that it acts as a hint for a source of schema
components in the relevant namespace. To ensure that the inline schema document is always used, it is advisable to
use a target namespace that is unique to this schema document.</p></div><p>The use of a namespace in an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration does not by itself
associate any namespace prefix with the namespace.
If names from the namespace are used within the stylesheet module then
a namespace declaration must be included in the stylesheet module,
in the usual way.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e5698" id="d5e5698"/>Example: An Inline Schema Document</div><p>The following example shows an inline schema document. This declares a simple type
<code>local:yes-no</code>, which the stylesheet then uses in the declaration of a variable.</p><p>The example assumes the namespace declaration
<code>xmlns:local="http://localhost/ns/yes-no"</code>
</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:import-schema&gt;
&lt;xs:schema targetNamespace="http://localhost/ns/yes-no"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="local:yes-no"&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:string"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:schema&gt;
&lt;/xsl:import-schema&gt;
&lt;xs:variable name="condition" select="local:yes-no('yes')" as="local:yes-no"/&gt;
</pre></div></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="data-model" id="data-model"/>4 Data Model</h2><p>The data model used by XSLT is the XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 data model
(XDM), as
defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>. XSLT operates on source, result and
stylesheet documents using the same data model.</p><p>This section elaborates on some particular features of XDM as
it is used by XSLT:</p><p>The rules in <a href="#stylesheet-stripping"><i>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</i></a> and <a href="#strip"><i>4.4 Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree</i></a>
make use of the concept of a whitespace text node.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-whitespace-text-node" id="dt-whitespace-text-node" title="whitespace text node"/>A <b>whitespace text node</b>
is a text node whose content consists entirely of whitespace characters (that is,
#x09, #x0A, #x0D, or #x20).<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Features of a source XML document that are not represented
in the XDM tree will have no effect on the operation of
an XSLT stylesheet. Examples of such features are entity references, CDATA sections,
character references, whitespace within element tags, and the choice of single or double
quotes around attribute values.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xml-versions" id="xml-versions"/>4.1 XML Versions</h3><p>The XDM data model defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a> is capable of representing
either an XML 1.0 document (conforming to <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a> and <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>)
or an XML 1.1 document (conforming to <a href="#xml11">[XML 1.1]</a> and <a href="#xml-names11">[Namespaces in XML 1.1]</a>), and
it makes no distinction between the two.
In principle, therefore, XSLT 2.0 can be used with either of these XML versions.</p><p>Construction of the XDM tree is outside the scope of this specification, so XSLT 2.0 places no
formal requirements on an XSLT processor to accept input from either XML 1.0 documents or XML 1.1 documents
or both. This specification does define a serialization capability (see <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>),
though from a conformance point of view it is an optional feature. Although facilities are described for
serializing the XDM tree as either XML 1.0 or XML 1.1 (and controlling the choice), there is again no
formal requirement on an XSLT processor to support either or both of these XML versions as serialization
targets.</p><p>Because the XDM tree is the same whether the original document was XML 1.0 or XML 1.1, the semantics
of XSLT processing do not depend on the version of XML used by the original document. There is no reason in principle
why all the input and output documents used in a single transformation must conform to the same version of
XML.</p><p>Some of the syntactic constructs in XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, for example the productions <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-Char">Char</a><sup><small>XML</small></sup>
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>, are defined by reference to the XML and XML Namespaces specifications.
There are slight variations between the XML 1.0 and XML 1.1 versions of these productions.
Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> support either version; it is
<span class="verb">recommended</span>
that an XSLT 2.0 processor that implements the 1.1 versions <span class="verb">should</span> also provide a mode
that supports the 1.0 versions. It is thus <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether the XSLT processor supports XML 1.0 with XML Namespaces 1.0, or XML 1.1 with XML Namespaces 1.1, or supports both versions at user
option.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The specification referenced as <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a> was actually
published without a version number.</p></div><p>At the time of writing there is no published version of <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a> that references the
XML 1.1 specifications. This means that data types such as <code>xs:NCName</code> and <code>xs:ID</code> are
constrained by the XML 1.0 rules, and do not allow the full range of values permitted by XML 1.1.
This situation will not be resolved until a new
version of <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a> becomes available; in the meantime, it is <span class="verb">recommended</span>
that implementers wishing to support XML 1.1 should consult <a href="#SCHEMA-AND-XML-1.1">[XML Schema 1.0 and XML 1.1]</a> for guidance.
An XSLT 2.0 processor that supports XML 1.1 <span class="verb">should</span>
implement the rules in later versions of <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a> as they become available.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="stylesheet-stripping" id="stylesheet-stripping"/>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</h3><p>The tree representing the stylesheet is preprocessed as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>All comments and processing instructions are removed.</p></li><li><p>Any text nodes that are now adjacent to each other are merged.</p></li><li><p>Any <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
that satisfies both the following conditions is removed from the tree:</p><ul><li><p>The parent of the text node is not an <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> element</p></li><li><p>The text node does not have an ancestor element that has an
<code>xml:space</code> attribute with a value of
<code>preserve</code>, unless there is a closer ancestor element having an
<code>xml:space</code> attribute with a value of <code>default</code>.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Any <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
whose parent is one of the following elements
is removed from the tree, regardless of any <code>xml:space</code>
attributes:</p><blockquote><p>
<a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
<br/>
<a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a>
</p></blockquote></li><li><p>Any <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
whose following-sibling node is an
<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> or <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element is removed from the tree, regardless of
any <code>xml:space</code> attributes.</p></li></ol><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0260"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0260] </span></a>Within an
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a> that is <span class="verb">required</span> to be empty,
any content other than comments or processing instructions, including any
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
preserved using the <code>xml:space="preserve"</code> attribute, is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Using <code>xml:space="preserve"</code> in parts of the stylesheet that
contain <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructors</a> will cause all text nodes in that part of the stylesheet,
including those that contain whitespace only, to be copied to the result of the sequence constructor.
When the result of the sequence constructor is used to form the content of an element, this can cause errors
if such text nodes are followed by attribute nodes generated using <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If an <code>xml:space</code> attribute is
specified on a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
it will be copied to the result tree in the same way as any other attribute.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="stripping-annotations" id="stripping-annotations"/>4.3 Stripping Type Annotations from a Source Tree</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-annotation" id="dt-annotation" title="type annotation"/>The term
<b>type annotation</b> is used in this specification to refer to the value returned by the
<code>dm:type-name</code> accessor of a node: see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-type-name">Section
5.14 type-name Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>There is sometimes a requirement to write stylesheets that produce the same
results whether or not the source documents have been validated against a
schema. To achieve this, an option is provided to remove any <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>
on element and attribute nodes in a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>,
replacing them with an annotation of <code>xs:untyped</code> in the case of element
nodes, and <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> in the case of attribute nodes.</p><p>Such stripping of <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> can be requested by specifying
<code>input-type-annotations="strip"</code> on the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element. This attribute
has three permitted values: <code>strip</code>, <code>preserve</code>,
and <code>unspecified</code>. The
default value is <code>unspecified</code>. Stripping of type annotations takes place if
at least one <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies
<code>input-type-annotations="strip"</code>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0265"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0265] </span></a> It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if there is a
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that specifies
<code>input-type-annotations="strip"</code> and
another <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
that specifies <code>input-type-annotations="preserve"</code>.
</p><p>The <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source trees</a> to which this applies are the same as those affected by
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>:
see <a href="#strip"><i>4.4 Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree</i></a>.</p><p>When type annotations are stripped, the following changes are made to the source tree:</p><ul><li><p>The type annotation of every element node is changed to <code>xs:untyped</code>
</p></li><li><p>The type annotation of every attribute node is changed to <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>
</p></li><li><p>The typed value of every element and attribute node is set to be the same as its string value, as
an instance of <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p></li><li><p>The <code>is-nilled</code> property of every element node is set to <code>false</code>.</p></li></ul><p>The values of the <code>is-id</code> and <code>is-idrefs</code> properties are
not changed.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Stripping type annotations does not necessarily return the
document to the state it would be in had validation not taken place. In
particular, any defaulted elements and attributes that were added to the
tree by the validation process will still be present , and
elements and attributes validated as IDs will still be accessible using the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="strip" id="strip"/>4.4 Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree</h3><p>A <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> supplied as input to the
transformation process may contain <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a>
that are of no interest,
and that do not need to be retained by the transformation. Conceptually,
an XSLT <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> makes a copy of the source
tree from which unwanted <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a>
have been removed. This process is referred to as whitespace stripping. </p><p>For the purposes of this section, the term <b>source tree</b> means the document
containing the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>, and any document
returned by the functions <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, or
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>. It does not include documents passed as the values of
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a> or returned from
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>.</p><p>The stripping process takes as input a set of element names
whose child <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> are to be preserved.
The way in which this set of element names is established using the
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> declarations
is described later in this section.</p><p>A <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
is preserved if either of the following apply:</p><ul><li><p>The element name of the parent of the text node is in the set
of whitespace-preserving element names.</p></li><li><p>An ancestor element of the text node has an
<code>xml:space</code> attribute with a value of
<code>preserve</code>, and no closer ancestor element has
<code>xml:space</code> with a value of
<code>default</code>.</p></li></ul><p>Otherwise, the <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
is stripped.</p><p>The <code>xml:space</code> attributes are not removed from the
tree.</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-strip-space"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:strip-space<br/>  <b>elements</b> = <var>tokens</var> /&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-preserve-space"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:preserve-space<br/>  <b>elements</b> = <var>tokens</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>The set of
whitespace-preserving element names is specified by
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a>. Whether an
element name is included in the set of whitespace-preserving names is
determined by the best match among all the <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> or
<a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> declarations: it is included if and only
if there is no match or the best match is an
<a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> element. The
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>
elements each have an <code>elements</code> attribute whose value is a
whitespace-separated list of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NameTest">NameTests</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>; an element name matches an
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> or <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>
element if it matches one of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NameTest">NameTests</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>.
An element matches a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NameTest">NameTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> if and only if the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NameTest">NameTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> would be true for the
element as an XPath node test. When more than one <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and
<a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> element matches, the best matching
element is determined by the best matching <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NameTest">NameTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. This is determined in the
same way as with <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>:</p><ul><li><p>First, any match with lower <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> than another
match is ignored.</p></li><li><p>Next, any match that has a lower
<a title="default priority" href="#dt-default-priority">default priority</a> than the
<a title="default priority" href="#dt-default-priority">default priority</a> of
another match is ignored.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTRE0270"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE0270] </span></a>It is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if
this
leaves more than one match, unless all the matched declarations are equivalent (that is,
they are all <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> or they are all <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>).
The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to select, from the matches that are left, the
one that occurs last in
<a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.
</p><p>If an element in a source document has a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
that is a simple type or a complex type with
simple content, then any whitespace text nodes among its children are preserved, regardless of
any <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> declarations. The reason for this
is that stripping a whitespace
text node from an element with simple content could make the element invalid: for
example, it could cause the <code>minLength</code> facet to be violated.</p><p>Stripping of <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> happens before stripping of whitespace text nodes,
so this situation
will not occur if <code>input-type-annotations="strip"</code> is specified.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, processes are described for constructing an
XDM tree from an Infoset or from a PSVI. Those processes
deal with whitespace according to their own rules, and the provisions in
this section apply to the resulting tree. In practice this means that
elements that are defined in a DTD or a Schema to contain element-only
content will have <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> stripped, regardless of the
<a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> and <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> declarations in the stylesheet.</p><p>However, source trees are not necessarily constructed using those processes;
indeed, they are not necessarily constructed by parsing XML documents.
Nothing in the XSLT specification constrains how the source tree is
constructed, or what happens to <a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> during its construction. The
provisions in this section relate only to whitespace text nodes that are
present in the tree supplied as input to the XSLT processor. The XSLT
processor cannot preserve whitespace text nodes unless they were actually
present in the supplied tree.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="id-in-data-model" id="id-in-data-model"/>4.5 Attribute Types and DTD Validation</h3><p>The mapping from the Infoset to the XDM data model, described in
<a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, does not retain attribute types. This means, for example, that an attribute
described in the DTD as having attribute type <code>NMTOKENS</code> will be annotated in the XDM tree
as <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> rather than <code>xs:NMTOKENS</code>, and its typed value
will consist of a single <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> value rather than a sequence of
<code>xs:NMTOKEN</code> values.</p><p>Attributes with a DTD-derived type of ID, IDREF, or IDREFS will be marked in the
XDM tree as having the <code>is-id</code> or <code>is-idrefs</code> properties. It is these properties,
rather than any <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>, that are examined by the functions <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-idref"><code>idref</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> described in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="limits" id="limits"/>4.6 Limits</h3><p>The XDM data model (see <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>) leaves it to the host language to
define limits. This section describes the limits that apply to XSLT.</p><p>Limits on some primitive data types are defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.
Other limits, listed below, are <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
Note that this does not necessarily mean that each limit must be a simple constant: it may vary depending
on environmental factors such as available resources.</p><p>The following limits are <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>For the <code>xs:decimal</code> type, the maximum number of decimal digits
(the <code>totalDigits</code> facet). This must be at least 18 digits. (Note, however, that
support for the full value range of <code>xs:unsignedLong</code> requires 20 digits.) </p></li><li><p>For the types <code>xs:date</code>, <code>xs:time</code>, <code>xs:dateTime</code>, <code>xs:gYear</code>,
and <code>xs:gYearMonth</code>: the range of values of the year component, which must be
at least +0001 to +9999; and the maximum number of fractional second digits, which must be at least 3.</p></li><li><p>For the <code>xs:duration</code> type: the maximum absolute values of the
years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds components. </p></li><li><p>For the <code>xs:yearMonthDuration</code> type: the maximum absolute value,
expressed as an integer number of months.</p></li><li><p>For the <code>xs:dayTimeDuration</code> type: the maximum absolute value,
expressed as a decimal number of seconds.</p></li><li><p>For the types <code>xs:string</code>, <code>xs:hexBinary</code>, <code>xs:base64Binary</code>, <code>xs:QName</code>,
<code>xs:anyURI</code>, <code>xs:NOTATION</code>, and types derived from them: the maximum length of the value. </p></li><li><p>For sequences, the maximum number of items in a sequence.</p></li></ol></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="d-o-e-in-data-model" id="d-o-e-in-data-model"/>4.7 Disable Output Escaping</h3><p>For backwards compatibility reasons, XSLT 2.0 continues to
support the <code>disable-output-escaping</code> feature introduced in XSLT 1.0.
This is an optional feature and implementations are not <span class="verb">required</span> to support it.
A new facility, that of named <a title="character map" href="#dt-character-map">character maps</a>
(see <a href="#character-maps"><i>20.1 Character Maps</i></a>) is introduced in XSLT 2.0. It provides similar
capabilities to <code>disable-output-escaping</code>, but without distorting the
data model.</p><p>If an <a title="implementation" href="#dt-implementation">implementation</a> supports
the <code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute
of <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> and <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>,
(see <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>), then the data model
for trees constructed by the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> is augmented with a boolean value
representing the value of this property. This boolean value, however, can be
set only within a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> that is being passed to the serializer.</p><p>Conceptually, each character in a text node on such
a result tree has a boolean
property indicating whether the serializer is to disable the normal rules
for escaping of special characters (for example, outputting of <code>&amp;</code>
as <code>&amp;amp;</code>) in respect of this character or attribute node.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In practice, the nodes in a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> will often be streamed
directly from the XSLT processor to the serializer. In such an implementation,
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> can be viewed not so much a property stored with nodes
in the tree, but rather as additional information passed across the interface between the
XSLT processor and the serializer.</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="constructs" id="constructs"/>5 Features of the XSLT Language</h2><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="qname" id="qname"/>5.1 Qualified Names</h3><p>The name of a stylesheet-defined object, specifically
a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>,
a <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>,
an <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>,
a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>,
a <a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal-format</a>,
a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> or <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a>,
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>, a
named <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>,
or a <a title="character map" href="#dt-character-map">character map</a>
is specified as a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> using the syntax
for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-QName">QName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup> as defined in <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-qname" id="dt-qname" title="QName"/>A <b>QName</b> is
always written in the form <code>(NCName ":")? NCName</code>, that is, a local name
optionally preceded by a namespace prefix. When two QNames are compared, however,
they are considered equal if the corresponding
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QNames</a> are the same, as described below.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Because an atomic value of type <code>xs:QName</code> is
sometimes referred to loosely as a QName, this specification also uses the term
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> to emphasize that it is referring
to a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-QName">QName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup> in its lexical form rather than its expanded form.
This term is used
especially when strings containing lexical QNames are manipulated as run-time values.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-lexical-qname" id="dt-lexical-qname" title="lexical QName"/>A <b>lexical QName</b>
is a string representing a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> in the form
<code>(NCName ":")? NCName</code>, that is, a local name
optionally preceded by a namespace prefix.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-defining-element" id="dt-defining-element" title="defining element"/>A
string in the form of a lexical QName may occur
as the value of an attribute node in a stylesheet
module, or within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> contained in
such an attribute node, or as the result
of evaluating an XPath expression contained in such an attribute node.
The element
containing this attribute node is referred to as the <b>defining element</b> of the QName.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-expanded-qname" id="dt-expanded-qname" title="expanded-QName"/>An
<b>expanded-QName</b> contains a pair of values,
namely a local name and an optional namespace URI. It may also contain a namespace prefix.
Two expanded-QNames are equal if the namespace URIs are the same
(or both absent) and the local names are the same. The prefix plays
no part in the comparison, but is used only if the expanded-QName needs to be converted back
to a string.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>If the QName has a prefix, then the
prefix is expanded into a URI reference using the namespace
declarations in effect on its <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a>. The
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
consisting of the local part of the name and the possibly null URI
reference is used as the name of the object. The default namespace of the defining element
(see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#ElementNode">Section
6.2 Element Nodes</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>) is
<em>not</em> used for unprefixed names.</p><p>There are three cases where the default namespace
of the <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a>
<em>is</em> used when expanding an unprefixed QName:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>Where a QName is used to define the name of an element
being constructed.
This applies both to cases where the name is known
statically (that is, the name of a literal result element) and to cases where it is
computed dynamically (the value of the <code>name</code> attribute
of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction).</p></li><li><p>The default namespace is used when expanding the first argument
of the function <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a>.</p></li><li><p>The default namespace applies to any unqualified element names
appearing in the <code>cdata-section-elements</code> attribute of
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
</p></li></ol><p>In the case of an unprefixed QName used as a
<code>NameTest</code> within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
(see <a href="#expressions"><i>5.3 Expressions</i></a>) , and in certain other contexts, the namespace
to be used in expanding the QName may be specified by means of the
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code>
attribute, as specified in <a href="#unprefixed-qnames"><i>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0280"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0280] </span></a>In the case of a prefixed
<a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
used as the value of an attribute in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, or appearing within
an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> in the stylesheet,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a> has
no namespace node whose name matches the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0290"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0290] </span></a>Where the result of evaluating an XPath expression (or an
attribute value template) is required to be a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>,
then unless otherwise specified
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a> has
no namespace node whose name matches the prefix of the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
This error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled as a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the expression can be determined statically.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="unprefixed-qnames" id="unprefixed-qnames"/>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</h3><p>The attribute <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code>
(see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>) may be used
on an element in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to define the namespace that will be
used for an unprefixed element name or type name
within an XPath expression, and in certain other contexts listed below.</p><p>The value of the attribute is the namespace URI to be used.</p><p>For any element in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, this attribute has an effective value, which is the
value of the <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> on that element or on the innermost containing
element that specifies such an attribute, or the zero-length string if no containing element
specifies such an attribute.</p><p>For any element in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>,
the effective value of this attribute determines
the value of the <em>default namespace for element and type names</em> in the
static context of any XPath expression contained in an attribute
of that element (including XPath expressions in
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value templates</a>).
The effect of this is specified in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>; in summary, it
determines the namespace used for any unprefixed type name in the SequenceType production,
and for any element name appearing in a path expression or in the SequenceType production.</p><p>The effective value of this attribute similarly applies to any of
the following constructs appearing within its scope:</p><ul><li><p>any unprefixed element name or type name
used in a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>
</p></li><li><p>any unprefixed element name
used in the <code>elements</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a>
or <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> instructions</p></li><li><p>any unprefixed element name or type name
used in the <code>as</code> attribute of an <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>
</p></li><li><p>any unprefixed type name
used in the <code>type</code> attribute of an <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>
</p></li><li><p>any unprefixed type name
used in the <code>xsl:type</code> attribute of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p></li></ul><p>The <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be in the
<a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>
if and only if its parent element is <em>not</em> in the XSLT namespace.</p><p>If the effective value of the attribute is a zero-length string,
which will be the case if it is explicitly set to a zero-length string or if it is
not specified at all, then an unprefixed element name or type name refers to a name
that is in no namespace. The default namespace
of the parent element (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#ElementNode">Section
6.2 Element Nodes</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>)
is <em>not</em> used.</p><p>The attribute does not affect other names, for example function names,
variable names, or template names, or strings that are interpreted as
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QNames</a> during stylesheet evaluation,
such as the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>name</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> or the string supplied as the first argument to
the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="expressions" id="expressions"/>5.3 Expressions</h3><p>XSLT uses the expression language defined by XPath 2.0 <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
Expressions are used in XSLT for a variety of purposes including:</p><ul><li><p>selecting nodes for processing;</p></li><li><p>specifying conditions for different ways of processing a node;</p></li><li><p>generating text to be inserted in a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p></li></ul><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-expression" id="dt-expression" title="expression"/>Within this specification, the term
<b>XPath expression</b>, or simply <b>expression</b>, means
a string that matches the production
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Expr">Expr</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>An XPath expression may occur as the value of certain attributes on
XSLT-defined elements, and also within curly brackets in
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value
templates</a>.</p><p>Except where
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>
is enabled (see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>), it is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of such an
attribute, or the text between curly
brackets in an attribute value template, does not match the
XPath production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Expr">Expr</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, or if it fails to satisfy
other static constraints defined in the XPath specification, for example
that all variable references <span class="verb">must</span> refer to <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variables</a> that are
in scope. Error codes are defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>The transformation fails with a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if any XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
is evaluated and raises a dynamic error.
Error codes are defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>The transformation fails with a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> raises a type error, or if the result of evaluating
the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> is evaluated and raises a type error,
or if the XPath processor signals a type error during static analysis of an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.
Error codes are defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-required-type" id="dt-required-type" title="required type"/>The context within a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
where an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
appears may specify the <b>required type</b> of
the expression. The required type indicates the type of the value that the
expression is expected to return.<span class="definition">]</span> If no required type is specified, the
expression may return any value: in effect, the required type is then <code>item()*</code>.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-function-conversion-rules" id="dt-function-conversion-rules" title="function conversion rules"/>Except where otherwise indicated, the actual
value of an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> is converted to the <a title="required type" href="#dt-required-type">required type</a>
using the <b>function conversion rules</b>. These are the rules defined in
<a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a> for converting the supplied argument of a function call to the
required type of that argument, as defined in the function signature. The relevant
rules are those that apply when
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a> is set to <code>false</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>This specification also invokes the
XPath 2.0 <a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>
to convert the result of evaluating an XSLT <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> to
a required type (for example, the sequence constructor enclosed in an <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>,
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>, or <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element).</p><p>Any <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a> or
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> that occurs when applying the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a> to
convert a value to a required type results in the transformation failing, in the
same way as if the error had occurred while evaluating an expression.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Note the distinction between the two kinds of error that may occur. Attempting to convert
an integer to a date is a type error, because such a conversion is never possible. Type errors can be reported
statically if they can be detected statically, whether or not the construct in question is ever evaluated.
Attempting to convert the string <code>2003-02-29</code> to a date is a dynamic error rather than a type error,
because the problem is with this particular value, not with its type.
Dynamic errors are reported only if the instructions or expressions that cause them are actually evaluated.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="static-and-dynamic-context" id="static-and-dynamic-context"/>5.4 The Static and Dynamic Context</h3><p>XPath defines the concept of an
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-expression-context">expression context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> which
contains all the information that can affect the result of evaluating an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>. The expression context has
two parts, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-static-context">static context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-dynamic-context">dynamic context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>.
The components that make up the expression context are defined in the XPath specification
(see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#context">Section
2.1 Expression Context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>). This section describes the way
in which these components are initialized when an XPath expression is contained within an
XSLT stylesheet.</p><p>As well as providing values for the static and dynamic context components defined in the
XPath specification, XSLT defines additional context components of its own. These context components
are used by XSLT instructions (for example, <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> and <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>),
and also by the functions in the extended function library described in this specification.</p><p>The following four sections describe:</p><blockquote><p>
<a href="#static-context"><i>5.4.1 Initializing the Static Context</i></a>
<br/>
<a href="#additional-static-context"><i>5.4.2 Additional Static Context Components used by XSLT</i></a>
<br/>
<a href="#xpath-dynamic-context"><i>5.4.3 Initializing the Dynamic Context</i></a>
<br/>
<a href="#additional-dynamic-context"><i>5.4.4 Additional Dynamic Context Components used by XSLT</i></a>
</p></blockquote><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="static-context" id="static-context"/>5.4.1 Initializing the Static Context</h4><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-static-context">static context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> of an XPath
expression appearing in an XSLT stylesheet is initialized as follows. In these rules,
the term <b>containing element</b> means the element within the stylesheet that is
the parent of the attribute whose value contains the XPath expression in question,
and the term <b>enclosing element</b> means the containing element or any of its ancestors.</p><ul><li><p>
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a>
is set to true
if and only if the containing element
occurs in part of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> where
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled (see <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>).</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-static-namespaces">statically known namespaces</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
are the namespace declarations that are in scope for the containing element.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-def-elemtype-ns">default element/type namespace</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
is the namespace defined by the
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute on the innermost enclosing element
that has such an attribute, as described in
<a href="#unprefixed-qnames"><i>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</i></a>. The value of this attribute
is a namespace URI. If there is no
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute on an enclosing element,
the default namespace for element names and type names is the null namespace.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-def-fn-ns">default function namespace</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> is the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>,
defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>. This means that it is not necessary to declare this
namespace in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, nor is it necessary
to use the prefix <code>fn</code> (or any other prefix) in calls to the <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core functions</a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-issd">in-scope schema definitions</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
for the XPath expression are the same as the
<a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a> for the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, and are as specified in <a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-in-scope-variables">in-scope variables</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> are defined by the
<a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable binding elements</a> that are in scope
for the containing element (see <a href="#variables-and-parameters"><i>9 Variables and Parameters</i></a>).</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-function-signature">function signatures</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> are the <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core functions</a> defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>,
the constructor functions for all the atomic types in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-issd">in-scope schema definitions</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
the additional
functions defined in this specification, the <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet
functions</a> defined in the stylesheet, plus any <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension
functions</a> bound using <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
mechanisms (see <a href="#extension"><i>18 Extensibility and Fallback</i></a>).</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It follows from the above that a conformant XSLT processor must implement the
entire library of <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core functions</a> defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p></div></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-static-collations">statically known collations</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> are
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
However, the set of in-scope collations <span class="verb">must</span> always include
the Unicode codepoint collation, defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#string-compare">Section
7.3 Equality and Comparison of Strings</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-def-collation">default collation</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> is
defined by the value of the <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code> attribute on the innermost enclosing
element that has such an attribute. For details, see <a href="#default-collation-attribute"><i>3.6.1 The default-collation attribute</i></a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-default-collation" id="dt-default-collation" title="default collation"/>In
this specification the term <b>default collation</b> means the collation that
is used by XPath operators such as <code>eq</code> and <code>lt</code> appearing in
XPath expressions within the stylesheet.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>This collation is also used by default when comparing strings
in the evaluation of the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
elements. This <span class="verb">may</span> also
(but need not necessarily) be the same as the default collation used for <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements
within the stylesheet. Collations used by <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> are described in
<a href="#collating-sequences"><i>13.1.3 Sorting Using Collations</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-base-uri">base URI</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> is the base URI of the containing element. The concept
of the base URI of a node is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-base-uri">Section
5.2 base-uri Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>
</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="additional-static-context" id="additional-static-context"/>5.4.2 Additional Static Context Components used by XSLT</h4><p>Some of the components of the XPath static context are used also by
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>. For
example, the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element makes use of the collations defined in the static
context, and attributes such as <code>type</code> and <code>as</code> may reference types defined
in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>.</p><p>Many top-level declarations in a stylesheet, and attributes on the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element, affect the behavior of instructions within the stylesheet. Each of these constructs is
described in its appropriate place in this specification.</p><p>A number of these constructs are of particular significance because they are
used by functions defined in XSLT, which are added to the library of functions available for use in
XPath expressions within the stylesheet. These are:</p><ul><li><p>The set of named keys, used by the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function</p></li><li><p>The set of named decimal formats, used by the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function</p></li><li><p>The values of system properties, used by the <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function</p></li><li><p>The set of available instructions, used by the <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> function</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="xpath-dynamic-context" id="xpath-dynamic-context"/>5.4.3 Initializing the Dynamic Context</h4><p>For convenience, the dynamic context is described in two parts: the
<a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>, which represents the place in the source document that
is currently being processed, and a collection of additional context variables.</p><p>A number of functions specified in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>
are defined to be <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#stable">stable</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, meaning that if they are called
twice during the same <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#execution-scope">execution scope</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>,
with the same arguments, then they return the same results
(see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#terminology">Section
1.7 Terminology</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>).
In XSLT, the execution of a stylesheet defines the execution scope.
This means, for example, that if the function <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-current-dateTime"><code>current-dateTime</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> is called repeatedly during
a transformation, it produces the same result each time. By implication, the components
of the dynamic context on which these functions depend are also stable for the duration
of the transformation. Specifically, the following components defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#eval_context">Section
2.1.2 Dynamic Context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
must be stable: <em>function implementations</em>, <em>current dateTime</em>, <em>implicit timezone</em>,
<em>available documents</em>, <em>available collections</em>, and <em>default collection</em>.
The values of global variables and stylesheet parameters are also stable
for the duration of a transformation. The focus is <em>not</em> stable;
the additional dynamic context components defined in <a href="#additional-dynamic-context"><i>5.4.4 Additional Dynamic Context Components used by XSLT</i></a>
are also <em>not</em> stable.</p><p>As specified in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>, implementations may provide user options that relax the
requirement for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> functions
(and therefore, by implication,
the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function) to return stable results. By default, however, the
functions must be stable. The manner in which such user options are provided, if
at all, is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>XPath expressions contained in <code>[xsl:]use-when</code>
attributes are not considered to be evaluated "during the
transformation" as defined above. For details see <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>.</p><div class="div4">
<h5><a name="focus" id="focus"/>5.4.3.1 Maintaining Position: the Focus</h5><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-focus" id="dt-focus" title="focus"/>When a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> is
evaluated, the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> keeps track of which
items are being processed
by means of a set of implicit variables referred to collectively as the
<b>focus</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
More specifically, the focus consists of the following three values:</p><ul><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-context-item" id="dt-context-item" title="context item"/>The <b>context item</b> is the item currently
being processed. An item (see <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>) is either an atomic value (such as an
integer, date, or string), or a node. The context item is initially set to the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>
supplied when the transformation is invoked (see <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>).
It changes
whenever instructions such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>
are used to process a sequence of items; each item in such a sequence becomes the context item
while that item is being processed.<span class="definition">]</span> The context item is returned by the XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>.</code> (dot).</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-context-position" id="dt-context-position" title="context position"/>The <b>context position</b> is the position of
the context item within the sequence of items currently being processed. It changes whenever the
context item changes. When an instruction such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> or
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> is used to process
a sequence of items, the first item in the sequence is processed with a context position of 1, the
second item with a context position of 2, and so on.<span class="definition">]</span> The context position is returned
by the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>position()</code>.</p></li><li><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-context-size" id="dt-context-size" title="context size"/>The <b>context size</b> is the number of items in
the sequence of items currently being processed. It changes
whenever instructions such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>
are used to process a sequence of items; during the processing of each one of those items, the
context size is set to the count of the number of items in the sequence (or equivalently, the position
of the last item in the sequence).<span class="definition">]</span> The context size is returned
by the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>last()</code>.</p></li></ul><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-context-node" id="dt-context-node" title="context node"/>If the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
is a node (as distinct
from an atomic value such as an integer), then it is also referred to as the <b>context node</b>.
The context node is not an independent variable, it changes whenever the context item changes. When
the context item is an atomic value, there is no context
node.<span class="definition">]</span>
The context node is returned by the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>self::node()</code>, and it is used
as the starting node for all relative path expressions.</p><p>Where the containing element of an XPath expression is an
<a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a>
or a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
the initial context item, context position, and context size
for the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> are the same as
the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>,
<a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>, and
<a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a> for the
evaluation of the containing instruction or literal result element.</p><p>In other cases (for example, where the containing element is <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>,
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>, or <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a>),
the rules are given in the specification of the containing element.</p><p>The <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function can be used within any XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
to select the item that was supplied as the context item to the XPath expression by the XSLT processor.
Unlike <code>.</code> (dot) this is unaffected by changes to the context item that occur within
the XPath expression. The <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function is described in
<a href="#current-function"><i>16.6.1 current</i></a>.</p><p>On completion of an instruction that changes the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>
(such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> or
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>), the focus reverts to its previous value.</p><p>When a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> is called,
the focus within the body of the function is initially undefined. The focus
is also undefined on initial entry to the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> if no <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>
is supplied.</p><p>When the focus is
undefined, evaluation of any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> that
references the context item, context position, or context size results
in a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
[XPDY0002]
</p><p>The description above gives an outline of the way the
<a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> works. Detailed rules for the effect
of each instruction are given separately with the description of that instruction. In the absence
of specific rules, an instruction uses the same focus as its parent instruction.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-singleton-focus" id="dt-singleton-focus" title="singleton focus"/>A <b>singleton focus</b>
based on a node <var>N</var>
has the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> (and therefore the
<a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>) set to <var>N</var>,
and the <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>
and <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a> both set to 1 (one).<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></div><div class="div4">
<h5><a name="evaluation-context" id="evaluation-context"/>5.4.3.2 Other components of the XPath Dynamic Context</h5><p>The previous section explained how the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> for an XPath
expression appearing in an XSLT stylesheet is initialized.
This section explains how the other components of the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-dynamic-context">dynamic context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> of an XPath
expression are initialized.</p><ul><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-variable-values">dynamic variables</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> are the current values of the in-scope
<a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable binding elements</a>.</p></li><li><p>The <em>current date and time</em> represents an
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a> point in time
during processing of the transformation; it does not change during the course of the transformation.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-timezone">implicit timezone</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-known-docs">available documents</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-known-collections">available collections</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
are determined as part of the process for initiating a transformation (see <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>).</p><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-known-docs">available documents</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
are defined as part of the XPath 2.0 dynamic context to support
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function, but this component is also referenced by the similar XSLT
<a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function: see <a href="#document"><i>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</i></a>. This variable defines
a mapping between URIs passed to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>
function and the document nodes that are returned.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Defining this as part of the evaluation context is a formal way of
specifying that the way in which URIs get turned into document nodes is outside the control of the
language specification, and depends entirely on the run-time environment in which the transformation
takes place.</p></div><p>The XSLT-defined <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function
allows the use of URI references containing fragment identifiers.
The interpretation of a fragment identifier
depends on the media type of the resource representation.
Therefore, the information supplied in
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-known-docs">available documents</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> for XSLT processing
must provide not only a mapping from URIs to document nodes as required by XPath, but also a mapping
from URIs to media types.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-default-collection">default collection</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. This allows options such
as setting the default collection to be an empty sequence, or to be undefined.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="additional-dynamic-context" id="additional-dynamic-context"/>5.4.4 Additional Dynamic Context Components used by XSLT</h4><p>In addition to the values that make up the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>,
an XSLT processor maintains a number of other dynamic context components that reflect aspects of the evaluation
context. These components are fully described in the sections of the specification that maintain and use them.
They are:</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a>, which is the
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
most recently invoked by an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction: see <a href="#apply-imports"><i>6.7 Overriding Template Rules</i></a>;
</p></li><li><p>The <a title="current mode" href="#dt-current-mode">current mode</a>, which is the
<a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>
set by the most recent call of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
(for a full definition see <a href="#modes"><i>6.5 Modes</i></a>);</p></li><li><p>The <a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a>
and <a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a>,
which provide information about the collection of items currently being processed
by an <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction: see <a href="#current-group"><i>14.1 The Current Group</i></a>
and <a href="#current-grouping-key"><i>14.2 The Current Grouping Key</i></a>;</p></li><li><p>The <a title="current captured substrings" href="#dt-current-captured-substrings">current captured substrings</a>:
this is a sequence of strings, which is maintained when a string
is matched against a regular expression using the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction,
and which is accessible using the <a href="#function-regex-group"><code>regex-group</code></a> function:
see <a href="#regex-group"><i>15.2 Captured Substrings</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output state</a>: this is a flag whose two possible
values are <a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a> and
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>. This flag indicates whether
instructions are currently writing to a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
or to an internal data structure. The
initial setting is <a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a>, and it is switched
to <a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a> by instructions such as
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>. For more details, see <a href="#creating-result-trees"><i>19.1 Creating Final Result Trees</i></a>.</p></li></ul><p>The following non-normative table summarizes the initial state of each
of the components in the
evaluation context, and the instructions which cause the state of the component to change.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Component</th><th align="left">Initial Setting</th><th align="left">Set by</th><th align="left">Cleared by</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>
</td><td valign="top">singleton focus based on the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a> if supplied</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>, <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a>
</td><td valign="top">If a
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a> is supplied as the entry point
to the transformation, then null; otherwise the
<a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a>
</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>, and
<a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>,
and calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>. Also cleared while
evaluating global variables or default values of stylesheet parameters, and the sequence constructors
contained in <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> and <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="current mode" href="#dt-current-mode">current mode</a>
</td><td valign="top">the initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>
</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>,
evaluation of global variables and stylesheet parameters, evaluation of the sequence constructor
contained in <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> or <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>. Clearing the current mode
causes the current mode to be set to the default (unnamed) mode.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a>
</td><td valign="top">empty sequence</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a>
</td><td valign="top">empty sequence</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="current captured substrings" href="#dt-current-captured-substrings">current captured substrings</a>
</td><td valign="top">empty sequence</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>
</td><td valign="top">
<a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a>;
calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">
<a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output state</a>
</td><td valign="top">
<a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a>
</td><td valign="top">Set to <a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a> by instructions
such as <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, etc., and by
calls on <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
</td><td valign="top">None</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="patterns" id="patterns"/>5.5 Patterns</h3><p>A <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> identifies the
nodes to which it applies by means of a pattern. As well as
being used in template rules, patterns are used for numbering (see
<a href="#number"><i>12 Numbering</i></a>), for grouping (see
<a href="#grouping"><i>14 Grouping</i></a>),
and for declaring <a title="" href="#key">keys</a> (see <a href="#key"><i>16.3 Keys</i></a>).</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-pattern" id="dt-pattern" title="pattern"/>A <b>pattern</b> specifies
a set of conditions on a node. A
node that satisfies the conditions matches the pattern; a node that
does not satisfy the conditions does not match the pattern. The
syntax for patterns is a subset of the syntax for <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
As explained in detail below, a node matches a pattern
if the node can be selected by deriving an equivalent expression, and
evaluating this expression with
respect to some possible context.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="pattern-examples" id="pattern-examples"/>5.5.1 Examples of Patterns</h4><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e8098" id="d5e8098"/>Example: Patterns</div><p>Here are some examples of patterns:</p><ul><li><p>
<code>para</code> matches any <code>para</code> element.</p></li><li><p>
<code>*</code> matches any element.</p></li><li><p>
<code>chapter|appendix</code> matches any
<code>chapter</code> element and any <code>appendix</code>
element.</p></li><li><p>
<code>olist/entry</code> matches any <code>entry</code> element with
an <code>olist</code> parent.</p></li><li><p>
<code>appendix//para</code> matches any <code>para</code> element with
an <code>appendix</code> ancestor element.</p></li><li><p>
<code>schema-element(us:address)</code> matches any element that is annotated as
an instance of the
type defined by the schema element declaration <code>us:address</code>,
and whose name is either <code>us:address</code> or the name of another element
in its substitution group.
</p></li><li><p>
<code>attribute(*, xs:date)</code> matches any attribute
annotated as being of type <code>xs:date</code>.</p></li><li><p>
<code>/</code> matches a document node.</p></li><li><p>
<code>document-node()</code> matches a document node.</p></li><li><p>
<code>document-node(schema-element(my:invoice))</code> matches the document node
of a document whose document element is named
<code>my:invoice</code> and matches the type defined by the global
element declaration <code>my:invoice</code>.</p></li><li><p>
<code>text()</code> matches any text node.</p></li><li><p>
<code>node()</code> matches any node other than an attribute
node, namespace node, or document node.</p></li><li><p>
<code>id("W33")</code> matches the element with unique ID <code>W33</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
<code>para[1]</code> matches any <code>para</code> element
that is the first <code>para</code> child element of its
parent. It also matches a parentless <code>para</code> element.</p></li><li><p>
<code>//para</code> matches any <code>para</code> element
that has a parent node.</p></li><li><p>
<code>bullet[position() mod 2 = 0]</code> matches any
<code>bullet</code> element that is an even-numbered <code>bullet</code>
child of its parent.</p></li><li><p>
<code>div[@class="appendix"]//p</code> matches any
<code>p</code> element with a <code>div</code> ancestor element that
has a <code>class</code> attribute with value
<code>appendix</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
<code>@class</code> matches any <code>class</code> attribute
(<em>not</em> any element that has a <code>class</code>
attribute).</p></li><li><p>
<code>@*</code> matches any attribute node.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="pattern-syntax" id="pattern-syntax"/>5.5.2 Syntax of Patterns</h4><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0340"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0340] </span></a>Where an attribute is
defined to contain a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the
pattern does not match the production <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>.
Every pattern is a legal XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, but the converse is not true: <code>2+2</code>
is an example of a legal XPath expression that is not a pattern.
The XPath expressions that can be used as patterns are those that
match the grammar for <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>, given below.</p><p>Informally, a <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a> is
a set of path expressions separated by <code>|</code>,
where each step
in the path expression is constrained to be an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-AxisStep">AxisStep</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> that uses only the
<code>child</code> or <code>attribute</code> axes. Patterns may
also use the <code>//</code> operator.
A <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Predicate">Predicate</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> within the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-PredicateList">PredicateList</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
in a pattern
can contain arbitrary XPath expressions (enclosed between square brackets)
in the same way as a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Predicate">predicate</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> in a path expression.</p><p>Patterns may start with an
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function call,
provided that the value to be matched is supplied as either a literal or a reference to
a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> or <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a>,
and the key name (in the case of the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function)
is supplied as a string literal. These patterns will
never match a node in a tree whose root is not a document node.</p><p>If a pattern occurs in part of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> where
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled (see <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>), then
the semantics of the pattern are defined on the basis that the equivalent
XPath expression is evaluated with
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a> set to true.</p>
<h5><a name="d5e8384" id="d5e8384"/>Patterns</h5><table class="scrap" summary="Scrap"><tbody><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-Pattern" id="NT-Pattern"/>[1]   </td><td><code>Pattern</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="#NT-PathPattern">PathPattern</a>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td/><td/><td/><td><code>| <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a> '|' <a href="#NT-PathPattern">PathPattern</a>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-PathPattern" id="NT-PathPattern"/>[2]   </td><td><code>PathPattern</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="#NT-RelativePathPattern">RelativePathPattern</a>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td/><td/><td/><td><code>| '/' <a href="#NT-RelativePathPattern">RelativePathPattern</a>?</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td/><td/><td/><td><code>| '//' <a href="#NT-RelativePathPattern">RelativePathPattern</a>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td/><td/><td/><td><code>| <a href="#NT-IdKeyPattern">IdKeyPattern</a> (('/' | '//') <a href="#NT-RelativePathPattern">RelativePathPattern</a>)?</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-RelativePathPattern" id="NT-RelativePathPattern"/>[3]   </td><td><code>RelativePathPattern</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="#NT-PatternStep">PatternStep</a> (('/' | '//') <a href="#NT-RelativePathPattern">RelativePathPattern</a>)?</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-PatternStep" id="NT-PatternStep"/>[4]   </td><td><code>PatternStep</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>? <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NodeTest">NodeTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-PredicateList">PredicateList</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-PatternAxis" id="NT-PatternAxis"/>[5]   </td><td><code>PatternAxis</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>('child' '::' | 'attribute' '::' | '@') </code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-IdKeyPattern" id="NT-IdKeyPattern"/>[6]   </td><td><code>IdKeyPattern</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>'id' '(' <a href="#NT-IdValue">IdValue</a> ')'</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td/><td/><td/><td><code>| 'key' '(' <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-StringLiteral">StringLiteral</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> ',' <a href="#NT-KeyValue">KeyValue</a> ')'</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-IdValue" id="NT-IdValue"/>[7]   </td><td><code>IdValue</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-StringLiteral">StringLiteral</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> | <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-VarRef">VarRef</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
</code></td></tr><tr valign="baseline"><td><a name="NT-KeyValue" id="NT-KeyValue"/>[8]   </td><td><code>KeyValue</code></td><td>   ::=   </td><td><code>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Literal">Literal</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> | <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-VarRef">VarRef</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
</code></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The constructs <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NodeTest">NodeTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-PredicateList">PredicateList</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-VarRef">VarRef</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Literal">Literal</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-StringLiteral">StringLiteral</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> are part of the XPath expression
language, and are defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="pattern-semantics" id="pattern-semantics"/>5.5.3 The Meaning of a Pattern</h4><p>The meaning of a pattern is defined formally as follows.</p><p>First we define the concept of an <em>equivalent expression</em>. In general,
the equivalent expression is the XPath expression that takes the same lexical form as the pattern as written.
However, if the pattern contains a <code>PathPattern</code> that is a <code>RelativePathPattern</code>, then
the first <code>PatternStep</code>
<var>PS</var> of this <code>RelativePathPattern</code> is adjusted to allow it to match
a parentless element or attribute node, as follows:</p><ul><li><p>If the <code>NodeTest</code> in <var>PS</var> is <code>document-node()</code> (optionally
with arguments), and if no explicit axis is specified, then the axis in step
<var>PS</var> is taken as <code>self</code> rather than <code>child</code>.</p></li><li><p>If <var>PS</var> uses the child axis (explicitly or
implicitly), and if the <code>NodeTest</code> in <var>PS</var> is not <code>document-node()</code> (optionally
with arguments),
then the axis in step <var>PS</var> is replaced by <code>child-or-top</code>, which is defined as follows.
If the context node is a parentless element, comment, processing-instruction, or text node
then the <code>child-or-top</code> axis selects the context node; otherwise it selects the children of
the context node. It is a forwards axis whose principal node kind is element.</p></li><li><p>If <var>PS</var> uses the attribute axis,
then the axis in step <var>PS</var> is replaced by <code>attribute-or-top</code>, which is defined as follows.
If the context node is an attribute node with no parent,
then the <code>attribute-or-top</code> axis selects the context node; otherwise it selects the attributes of
the context node. It is a forwards axis whose principal node kind is attribute.
</p></li></ul><p>The axes <code>child-or-top</code> and <code>attribute-or-top</code> are introduced
only for definitional purposes. They cannot be used explicitly in a user-written pattern or expression.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The purpose of these adjustments is to ensure that a pattern such as <code>person</code> matches any
element named <code>person</code>, even if it has no parent; and similarly, that the pattern <code>@width</code>
matches any attribute named <code>width</code>, even a parentless attribute. The rule also ensures that
a pattern using a <code>NodeTest</code> of the form <code>document-node(...)</code> matches a document node.
The pattern <code>node()</code> will
match any element, text node, comment, or processing instruction, whether or not it has a parent.
For backwards compatibility reasons, the pattern <code>node()</code>, when used without an explicit axis,
does not match document nodes, attribute nodes, or namespace nodes. The rules are also phrased to ensure
that positional patterns of the form <code>para[1]</code> continue to count nodes relative to their parent,
if they have one.</p></div><p>Let the equivalent expression, calculated according to these rules, be <var>EE</var>.</p><p>To determine whether a node <var>N</var> matches the pattern,
evaluate the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>root(.)//(<var>EE</var>)</code> with a
<a title="singleton focus" href="#dt-singleton-focus">singleton focus</a> based on <var>N</var>.
If the result is a sequence of nodes that includes <var>N</var>, then node <var>N</var>
matches the pattern; otherwise node <var>N</var> does not match the pattern.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e8681" id="d5e8681"/>Example: The Semantics of Patterns</div><p>The pattern <code>p</code> matches any <code>p</code> element,
because a <code>p</code> element will always be present in the result
of evaluating the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>root(.)//(child-or-top::p)</code>. Similarly, <code>/</code>
matches a document node, and only a document node,
because the result of the
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<code>root(.)//(/)</code>
returns the root node of the tree containing the context node if and
only if it is a document node.</p><p>The pattern <code>node()</code> matches all nodes selected by the expression
<code>root(.)//(child-or-top::node())</code>, that is, all element, text, comment, and processing
instruction nodes, whether or not they have a parent. It does not match attribute or namespace nodes because the
expression does not select nodes using the attribute or namespace axes.
It does not match document nodes
because for backwards compatibility reasons the <code>child-or-top</code> axis does not
match a document node.</p></div><p>Although the semantics of patterns are specified formally in
terms of expression evaluation, it is possible to understand pattern
matching using a different model. In a pattern, <code>|</code> indicates alternatives; a
pattern with one or more <code>|</code> separated alternatives matches
if any one of the alternatives matches. A pattern such as <code>book/chapter/section</code>
can be examined from right to left. A node will only match this pattern
if it is a <code>section</code> element;
and then, only if its parent is a <code>chapter</code>; and then, only
if the parent of that <code>chapter</code> is a <code>book</code>. When the
pattern uses the <code>//</code> operator, one can still read it from right to
left, but this time testing the ancestors of a node rather than its parent.
For example <code>appendix//section</code> matches every <code>section</code>
element that has an ancestor <code>appendix</code> element.</p><p>The formal definition, however, is useful for understanding the meaning
of a pattern such as <code>para[1]</code>. This matches any node selected
by the expression <code>root(.)//(child-or-top::para[1])</code>: that is, any <code>para</code>
element that is the first <code>para</code> child of its parent, or a
<code>para</code> element that has no parent.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An implementation, of course, may use any
algorithm it wishes for evaluating patterns, so long as the result corresponds
with the formal definition above. An implementation that followed the formal
definition by evaluating the equivalent expression and then testing the membership of
a specific node in the result would probably be very inefficient.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="pattern-errors" id="pattern-errors"/>5.5.4 Errors in Patterns</h4><p>Any <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a> or
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> that occurs during the evaluation
of a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> against a particular node is treated as a
<a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable error</a> even if the error
would not be recoverable under other circumstances. The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to treat
the pattern as not matching that node.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The reason for this provision is that it is difficult for the stylesheet
author to predict which predicates in a pattern will actually be evaluated. In the case of
match patterns in template rules, it is not even possible to predict which patterns will be evaluated
against a particular node. Making errors in patterns recoverable enables an implementation,
if it chooses to do so, to report such errors while stylesheets are under development, while
masking them if they occur during production running.</p></div><p>One particular optimization is <span class="verb">required</span> by this specification: for a
<a href="#NT-PathPattern">PathPattern</a> that starts with <code>/</code> or <code>//</code> or with an
<a href="#NT-IdKeyPattern">IdKeyPattern</a>,
the result of testing this pattern against a node in a tree whose root is not a document node
must be a non-match, rather than a dynamic error. This rule applies
to each <a href="#NT-PathPattern">PathPattern</a> within a <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Without the above rule, any attempt to apply templates to a parentless element
node would create the risk of a dynamic error if the stylesheet has a template rule specifying
<code>match="/"</code>.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="attribute-value-templates" id="attribute-value-templates"/>5.6 Attribute Value Templates</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-attribute-value-template" id="dt-attribute-value-template" title="attribute value template"/>In an
attribute that is designated as an
<b>attribute value template</b>, such as an attribute of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> can be used by surrounding
the expression with curly brackets (<code>{}</code>)<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>An attribute value template consists of an alternating
sequence of fixed parts and variable parts. A variable part consists of
an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> enclosed
in curly brackets (<code>{}</code>). A fixed part
may contain any characters, except that a left curly bracket <span class="verb">must</span> be written as
<code>{{</code> and a right curly bracket <span class="verb">must</span> be written as <code>}}</code>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An expression within a variable part may contain an unescaped curly bracket
within a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-StringLiteral">StringLiteral</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> or within a comment.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0350"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0350] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an unescaped left curly bracket appears in a fixed part of an attribute value template without a matching right
curly bracket.
</p><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the string contained between matching curly brackets in an attribute value template
does not match the XPath production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Expr">Expr</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, or if it contains
other XPath static errors. The error is signaled using the appropriate XPath error code.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0370"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0370] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an unescaped right curly bracket occurs in a fixed part of an attribute value template.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-effective-value" id="dt-effective-value" title="effective value"/>The
result of evaluating an attribute value template is referred to as the
<b>effective value</b> of the attribute.<span class="definition">]</span> The effective value
is the string obtained by concatenating the expansions
of the fixed and variable parts:</p><ul><li><p>The expansion of a fixed part is obtained by
replacing any double curly brackets (<code>{{</code> or <code>}}</code>) by the
corresponding single curly bracket.</p></li><li><p>The expansion of a variable part is obtained
by evaluating the enclosed XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> and converting the resulting value to a string.
This
conversion is done using the rules given in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This process can generate dynamic errors, for example if
the sequence contains an element with a complex content type (which cannot
be atomized).</p></div><p>If <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards
compatible behavior</a> is enabled for the attribute, the rules for converting the
value of the expression to a string are modified as follows. After
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomizing</a> the result of the expression,
all items other than the first item in the resulting sequence are discarded, and the effective
value is obtained by converting the first item in the sequence to a string.
If the atomized sequence is empty, the result is a zero-length string.</p><p>Curly brackets are
not treated specially in an attribute value in an XSLT <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> unless the
attribute is specifically designated as one that permits an
attribute value template; in an element syntax summary, the value
of such attributes is surrounded by curly brackets.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Not all attributes are designated as attribute value
templates. Attributes whose value is an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> or
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>,
attributes of <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> elements
and attributes that refer to named XSLT objects are generally not designated as
attribute value templates (an exception is the <code>format</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>). Namespace declarations
are not XDM attribute nodes and are therefore never treated as
attribute value templates.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e8966" id="d5e8966"/>Example: Attribute Value Templates</div><p>The following example creates an <code>img</code> result element
from a <code>photograph</code> element in the source; the value of the
<code>src</code> and <code>width</code> attributes are computed using
XPath expressions enclosed in attribute value templates:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="image-dir" select="'/images'"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="photograph"&gt;
&lt;img src="{$image-dir}/{href}" width="{size/@width}"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>With this source</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;photograph&gt;
&lt;href&gt;headquarters.jpg&lt;/href&gt;
&lt;size width="300"/&gt;
&lt;/photograph&gt;</pre></div><p>the result would be</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;img src="/images/headquarters.jpg" width="300"/&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e8993" id="d5e8993"/>Example: Producing a Space-Separated List</div><p>The following example shows how the values in a sequence are output
as a space-separated list. The following literal result element:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;temperature readings="{10.32, 5.50, 8.31}"/&gt;</pre></div><p>produces the output node:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;temperature readings="10.32 5.5 8.31"/&gt;</pre></div></div><p>Curly brackets are <em>not</em> recognized recursively inside
expressions.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e9009" id="d5e9009"/>Example: Curly Brackets can not be Nested</div><p>For example:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;a href="#{id({@ref})/title}"&gt;</pre></div><p>is <em>not</em> allowed. Instead, use simply:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;a href="#{id(@ref)/title}"&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="sequence-constructors" id="sequence-constructors"/>5.7 Sequence Constructors</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-sequence-constructor" id="dt-sequence-constructor" title="sequence constructor"/>A <b>sequence
constructor</b> is a sequence of zero or more
sibling nodes in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that
can be evaluated to return a sequence of nodes and atomic values. The way that the resulting
sequence is used depends on the containing instruction.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Many <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>,
and also
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result elements</a>, are defined to take
a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> as
their content.</p><p>Four kinds of nodes may be encountered in a sequence constructor:</p><ul><li><p>
<em>Text nodes</em> appearing in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
(if they have not been
removed in the process of whitespace stripping: see <a href="#stylesheet-stripping"><i>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</i></a>) are copied
to create a new parentless text node in the result sequence.</p></li><li><p>
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">Literal result elements</a>
are evaluated to create a new parentless element node,
having the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
as the literal result element, which is added to the result
sequence: see <a href="#literal-result-element"><i>11.1 Literal Result Elements</i></a>
</p></li><li><p>XSLT <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instructions</a> produce
a sequence of zero, one, or more items as their result.
These items are added to the result sequence. For most XSLT instructions, these
items are nodes, but some instructions (<a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a> and <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>)
can also produce atomic values. Several instructions,
such as <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, return a newly constructed parentless node (which may
have its own attributes, namespaces, children, and other descendants). Other instructions, such
as <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a>, pass on the items produced by their own nested sequence
constructors. The <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>
instruction may return atomic values, or existing nodes.</p></li><li><p>
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">Extension instructions</a>
(see <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>) also produce a sequence of items as their
result. The items in this sequence are added to the result sequence.</p></li></ul><p>There are several ways the result of a sequence constructor may be used.</p><ul><li><p>The sequence may be bound to a variable or returned from a stylesheet function,
in which case it becomes available as a value to be manipulated in arbitrary ways by XPath expressions.
The sequence is bound to a variable when the sequence constructor appears within one of the
elements <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>,
<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>, or <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>, when this
instruction has an <code>as</code> attribute. The sequence is returned from a stylesheet function
when the sequence constructor appears within the <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This will typically expose to the stylesheet elements, attributes, and other nodes that have
not yet been attached to a parent node in a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.
The semantics of XPath expressions when applied to
parentless nodes are well-defined; however, such expressions should be used with care. For example, the expression
<code>/</code> causes a type error if the root of the tree containing the context node
is not a document node..</p><p>Parentless attribute nodes require particular care because they have no namespace nodes associated
with them. A parentless attribute node is not permitted to contain namespace-sensitive
content (for example, a QName or an XPath expression) because there
is no information enabling the prefix to be resolved to a namespace URI. Parentless attributes
can be useful in an application (for example, they provide an alternative to the use of
attribute sets: see <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>) but they need to be handled with care.</p></div></li><li><p>The sequence may be returned as the result of the containing element.
This happens
when the instruction containing the sequence constructor is
<a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a>,
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>,
<a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a>,
<a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>,
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>,
<a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a>,
<a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a>,
<a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a>,
<a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a>
</p></li><li><p>The sequence may be used to construct the content of a new element or document node. This
happens when the sequence constructor appears as the content of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>, or of one of
the instructions <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>,
<a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a>.
It also happens when the sequence constructor is contained in one of the elements <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>,
<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>, or <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>, when this
instruction has no <code>as</code> attribute. For details, see <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>The sequence may be used to construct the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>
of an attribute node, text node, namespace node,
comment node, or processing instruction node. This happens when the sequence constructor is contained
in one of the elements <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>,
<a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a>, or <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>.
For details, see <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The term <em>sequence constructor</em>
replaces <em>template</em> as used in XSLT 1.0.
The change is made partly for clarity (to avoid confusion
with <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a> and
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named templates</a>),
but also to reflect a more formal definition of the semantics.
Whereas XSLT 1.0 described a template as a sequence of instructions that write
to the result tree, XSLT 2.0 describes a sequence constructor as something that can be
evaluated to return a sequence of items; what happens to these items depends on the containing
instruction.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="constructing-complex-content" id="constructing-complex-content"/>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</h4><p>This section describes how the sequence obtained by evaluating a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
may be used to construct the children of a newly constructed document node,
or the children, attributes and namespaces of a newly constructed element node.
The sequence of items may be obtained by evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> contained in an
instruction such as <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>,
<a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>, or a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p><p>When constructing the content of an element, the <code>inherit-namespaces</code>
attribute of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> or <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction, or the
<code>xsl:inherit-namespaces</code> property of the literal result element, determines whether
namespace nodes are to be inherited. The effect of this attribute is described in the rules that
follow.</p><p>The sequence is processed as follows
(applying the rules in the order they are listed):</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The containing instruction may generate attribute nodes and/or
namespace nodes, as specified in the rules for the individual instruction. For example,
these nodes may be produced by expanding an <code>[xsl:]use-attribute-sets</code> attribute,
or by expanding the attributes of a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.
Any such nodes are prepended to the sequence produced by evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p></li><li><p>Any atomic value in the sequence is cast to a string.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Casting from <code>xs:QName</code> or <code>xs:NOTATION</code> to <code>xs:string</code>
always succeeds, because these values retain a prefix for this purpose. However, there is no guarantee that
the prefix used will always be meaningful in the context where the resulting string is used.</p></div></li><li><p>Any consecutive sequence of strings within the result sequence is converted
to a single text node, whose <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> contains
the content of each of the strings in turn, with a single space (#x20) used as a separator
between successive strings.</p></li><li><p>Any document node within the result sequence is replaced by a sequence containing
each of its children, in document order.</p></li><li><p>Zero-length text nodes within the result sequence are removed.</p></li><li><p>Adjacent text nodes within the result sequence are merged into a single text node.</p></li><li><p>Invalid namespace and attribute nodes are detected as follows.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0410"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0410] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence used to construct the content of an element node
contains a namespace node or attribute node that is preceded
in the sequence by a node that is neither a namespace node nor an attribute node.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0420"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0420] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence used to construct the content of a document node
contains a namespace node or attribute node.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0430"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0430] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence contains two or more namespace nodes having the same name but different
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string values</a> (that is,
namespace nodes that map the same prefix to different namespace URIs).
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0440"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0440] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence contains a namespace node with no name and the element node being constructed has a
null namespace URI (that is, it is an error to define a default namespace when the element is in no namespace).
</p></li><li><p>If the result sequence contains two or more namespace nodes with the same name (or no name)
and the same <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> (that is, two namespace nodes mapping the same prefix to the same namespace URI), then
all but one of the duplicate nodes are discarded.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Since the order of namespace nodes is undefined, it is not significant which of the duplicates
is retained.</p></div></li><li><p>If an attribute <var>A</var> in the result sequence has the same name as another attribute
<var>B</var> that appears later in the
result sequence, then attribute <var>A</var> is discarded from the result sequence.
<span>Before discarding attribute <var>A</var>, the processor
<span class="verb">may</span> signal any <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type errors</a>
that would be signaled if attribute <var>B</var> were not present.</span></p></li><li><p>Each node in the resulting sequence is attached as a namespace, attribute, or child
of the newly constructed element or document node. Conceptually this involves making a deep
copy of the node; in practice, however, copying the node will only be necessary if the existing node
can be referenced independently of the parent to which it is being attached. When copying an element
or processing instruction
node, its base URI property is changed to be the same as that of its new parent, unless it has an
<code>xml:base</code> attribute (see <a href="#xmlbase">[XML Base]</a>) that overrides this.
If the copied element has an <code>xml:base</code> attribute, its base URI
is the value of that attribute, resolved (if it is relative) against the base URI of the new parent node.</p></li><li><p>If the newly constructed node is an element node, then namespace fixup is applied to this node, as described
in <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>If the newly constructed node is an element node, and if namespaces are inherited, then each
namespace node of the newly constructed element (including any produced as a result of the
namespace fixup process) is copied to each descendant element of the newly constructed element,
unless that element or an intermediate element already has a namespace node with the same name
(or absence of a name) or that descendant element or an intermediate
element is in no namespace and the namespace node has no name.</p></li></ol><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e9450" id="d5e9450"/>Example: A Sequence Constructor for Complex Content</div><p>Consider the following stylesheet fragment:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;td&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="valign"&gt;top&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="@description"/&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;</pre></div><p>This fragment consists of a literal result element <code>td</code>, containing
a sequence constructor that consists of two instructions: <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> and
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>. The sequence constructor is evaluated to produce a sequence of two nodes: a
parentless attribute node, and a parentless text node.
The <code>td</code> instruction causes a <code>td</code> element
to be created; the new attribute therefore becomes an attribute of the new <code>td</code> element,
while the text node created by the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction becomes a child of the
<code>td</code> element (unless it is zero-length, in which case it is
discarded).</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e9484" id="d5e9484"/>Example: Space Separators in Element Content</div><p>Consider the following stylesheet fragment:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;e&gt;&lt;xsl:sequence select="1 to 5"/&gt;&lt;/e&gt;
&lt;f&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="1 to 5"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/f&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>This produces the output (when indented):</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;e&gt;1 2 3 4 5&lt;/e&gt;
&lt;f&gt;12345&lt;/f&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>The difference between the two cases is that for the <code>e</code> element, the sequence constructor
generates a sequence of five atomic values, which are therefore separated by spaces. For the <code>f</code>
element, the content is a sequence of five text nodes, which are concatenated without space separation.</p><p>It is important to be aware of the distinction between <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>, which returns the value
of its <code>select</code> expression unchanged, and <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>, which constructs a text node.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="constructing-simple-content" id="constructing-simple-content"/>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</h4><p>The <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a>,
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>,
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>, and <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
elements create nodes that cannot have children.
Specifically, the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction creates
an attribute node, <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> creates a comment node,
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> creates a processing instruction node,
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> creates a namespace node, and <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
creates a text node.
The string value of the new node is constructed using either
the <code>select</code> attribute of the instruction, or the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructor</a> that forms the content of the instruction. The <code>select</code> attribute
allows the content to be specified by means of an XPath expression, while the sequence constructor allows
it to be specified by means of a sequence of XSLT instructions. The <code>select</code> attribute
or sequence constructor is evaluated to produce a result sequence,
and the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> of the new
node is derived from this result sequence according to the rules below.</p><p>These rules are also used to compute the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>. In this case the sequence
being processed is the result of evaluating an XPath expression enclosed between curly brackets, and the
separator is a single space character.</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>Zero-length text nodes in the sequence are discarded.</p></li><li><p>Adjacent text nodes in the sequence are merged into a single text node.</p></li><li><p>The sequence is <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>.</p></li><li><p>Every value in the atomized sequence is cast to a string.</p></li><li><p>The strings within the resulting sequence are concatenated, with a
(possibly zero-length) separator inserted between successive strings.
The default separator is a single space.
In the case of <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> and
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>, a different separator can be specified using the <code>separator</code>
attribute of the instruction; it is permissible for this to be a zero-length string, in which case
the strings are concatenated with no separator. In the case of <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a>,
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>, and <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>, and
when expanding an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>, the default
separator cannot be changed.</p></li><li><p>In the case of <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>,
any leading spaces in the resulting string are removed.</p></li><li><p>The resulting string forms the
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> of the new attribute, namespace, comment,
processing-instruction, or text node.</p></li></ol><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e9627" id="d5e9627"/>Example: Space Separators in Attribute Content</div><p>Consider the following stylesheet fragment:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="e" select="1 to 5"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="f"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="1 to 5"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>This produces the output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc e="1 2 3 4 5" f="12345"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The difference between the two cases is that for the <code>e</code> attribute, the sequence constructor
generates a sequence of five atomic values, which are therefore separated by spaces. For the <code>f</code>
attribute, the content is supplied as a sequence of five text nodes, which are concatenated without space separation.</p><p>Specifying <code>separator=""</code> on the first <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction would cause
the attribute value to be <code>e="12345"</code>. A <code>separator</code> attribute on the second
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction would have no effect, since the separator only affects the way
adjacent atomic values are handled: separators are never inserted between adjacent text nodes.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If an attribute value template contains a sequence of fixed and variable
parts, no additional whitespace is inserted between the expansions of the fixed and variable parts.
For example, the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the attribute
<code>a="chapters{4 to 6}"</code> is <code>a="chapters4 5 6"</code>.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="namespace-fixup" id="namespace-fixup"/>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</h4><p>In a tree supplied to or constructed by an XSLT processor, the
constraints relating to namespace nodes that are specified in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be satisfied. For example</p><ul><li><p>If an element node has an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> with a non-null
namespace URI, then that element node <span class="verb">must</span> have at least one namespace
node whose <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> is the same as that namespace URI.</p></li><li><p>If an element node has an attribute node whose
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> has a non-null
namespace URI, then the element <span class="verb">must</span> have at
least one namespace node whose <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> is the same as that
namespace URI and whose name is non-empty.</p></li><li><p>Every element <span class="verb">must</span> have a namespace node whose
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> has
local-part <code>xml</code> and whose <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> is
<code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>. The namespace prefix
<code>xml</code> must not be associated with any other namespace URI, and the namespace URI
<code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code> must not be associated with any other prefix.</p></li><li><p>A namespace node <span class="verb">must not</span> have the name <code>xmlns</code>
<span>or the string value <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></span>.</p></li></ul><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-namespace-fixup" id="dt-namespace-fixup" title="namespace fixup"/>The rules for the individual XSLT instructions that
construct a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> (see <a href="#creating-new-nodes"><i>11 Creating Nodes and Sequences</i></a>) prescribe some of the situations
in which namespace nodes are written to the tree. These rules, however, are not sufficient
to ensure that the prescribed constraints are always satisfied. The XSLT processor <span class="verb">must</span> therefore
add additional namespace nodes to satisfy these constraints. This process is referred to
as <b>namespace fixup</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The actual namespace nodes that are added to the tree by the namespace fixup process are
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>,
provided firstly, that at the end of the process the above constraints
<span class="verb">must</span> all be satisfied, and secondly, that a namespace node <span class="verb">must not</span> be added to the tree unless the namespace
node is necessary either to satisfy these constraints, or to enable the tree to be serialized using
the original namespace prefixes from the source document or <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p><p>Namespace fixup <span class="verb">must not</span> result in an element having multiple
namespace nodes with the same name.</p><p>Namespace fixup <span class="verb">may</span>, if necessary to resolve conflicts,
change the namespace prefix contained in the QName value that holds the name of an element or attribute
node. This includes the option to add or remove a prefix.
However, namespace fixup <span class="verb">must not</span> change the prefix component contained
in a value of type <code>xs:QName</code> or <code>xs:NOTATION</code> that forms the typed value
of an element or attribute node.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Namespace fixup is not used to create namespace declarations for <code>xs:QName</code>
or <code>xs:NOTATION</code> values appearing in the content of an element or attribute.</p><p>Where
values acquire such types as the result of validation, namespace fixup does not come into play, because
namespace fixup happens before validation: in this situation, it is the user's responsibility to ensure that the
element being validated has the required namespace nodes to enable validation to succeed.</p><p>Where existing elements are copied along with their existing type annotations
(<code>validation="preserve"</code>) the rules require that existing namespace nodes are also
copied, so that any namespace-sensitive values remain valid.</p><p>Where existing attributes are copied along with their existing type annotations, the
rules of the XDM data model require that a parentless attribute node cannot contain a namespace-sensitive
typed value; this means that it is an error to copy an attribute using <code>validation="preserve"</code>
if it contains namespace-sensitive content.</p></div><p>Namespace fixup is applied to every element that is constructed using a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>, or one of the
instructions <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>.
An implementation is not <span class="verb">required</span> to perform namespace fixup for
elements in any source document, that is, for a document in the
initial input sequence, documents
loaded using the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function,
documents supplied as the value of a
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>, or documents
returned by an <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension function</a>
or <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>A source document (an input document, a document returned by the
<a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> functions,
a document returned by an extension function or extension instruction,
or a document supplied as a stylesheet parameter) is required to satisfy the constraints described in
<a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, including the constraints imposed by the namespace fixup process.
The effect of supplying a pseudo-document that does not meet these constraints is undefined.</p></div><p>In an Infoset (see <a href="#xml-infoset">[XML Information Set]</a>)
created from a document conforming to <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>,
it will always be true that if a parent element
has an in-scope namespace with a non-empty namespace prefix, then its child elements will also
have an in-scope namespace with the same namespace prefix, though possibly with a different namespace URI.
This constraint is removed in <a href="#xml-names11">[Namespaces in XML 1.1]</a>. XSLT 2.0 supports the creation of result
trees that do not satisfy this constraint: the namespace fixup process does not add a namespace node
to an element merely because its parent node in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
has such a namespace node.
However, the process of constructing the children of a new element, which is
described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>, does cause the namespaces of a parent
element to be inherited by its children unless this is prevented using <code>[xsl:]inherit-namespaces="no"</code>
on the instruction that creates the parent element.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This has implications on serialization, defined in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>. It
means that it is possible to create <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
that cannot be faithfully serialized as XML 1.0
documents. When such a result tree is serialized as XML 1.0, namespace declarations written
for the parent element will be inherited by its child elements as if the corresponding namespace
nodes were present on the child element, except in the case of the default
namespace, which can be undeclared using the construct <code>xmlns=""</code>.
When the same result tree is serialized as XML 1.1, however, it is possible
to undeclare any namespace on the child element (for example, <code>xmlms:foo=""</code>)
to prevent this inheritance taking place.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="uri-references" id="uri-references"/>5.8 URI References</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-uri-reference" id="dt-uri-reference" title="URI Reference"/>Within this specification, the term
<b>URI Reference</b>, unless otherwise stated, refers to a string in the lexical space of
the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.<span class="definition">]</span> Note that this
is a wider definition than that in <a href="#RFC3986">[RFC3986]</a>:
in particular, it is designed
to accommodate Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
as described in <a href="#RFC3987">[RFC3987]</a>, and thus allows the use of non-ASCII characters
without escaping.</p><p>URI References are used in XSLT with three main roles:</p><blockquote><p>As namespace URIs<br/>As collation URIs<br/>As identifiers for resources such as stylesheet modules; these resources are typically accessible
using a protocol such as HTTP.
Examples of such identifiers are the URIs used in the <code>href</code> attributes of <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>,
<a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a>, and <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>.</p></blockquote><p>The rules for namespace URIs are given in <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a> and <a href="#xml-names11">[Namespaces in XML 1.1]</a>. Those
specifications deprecate the use of relative URIs as namespace URIs.</p><p>The rules for collation URIs are given in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p><p>URI references used to identify external resources must conform to the same rules as the locator attribute
(<code>href</code>) defined in section 5.4 of <a href="#xlink">[XLink]</a>. If the URI reference is relative, then
it is resolved (unless otherwise specified) against the base URI of the containing element node, according to the rules of
<a href="#RFC3986">[RFC3986]</a>, after first escaping all characters that need to be escaped to make it a valid
RFC3986 URI reference. (But a relative URI in the <code>href</code> attribute of <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
is resolved against the <a title="base output URI" href="#dt-base-output-uri">Base Output URI</a>.)</p><p>Other URI references appearing in an XSLT stylesheet document, for example the system identifiers of external
entities or the value of the <code>xml:base</code> attribute, must follow the rules in their respective
specifications.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="rules" id="rules"/>6 Template Rules</h2><p>Template rules define the processing that can be applied
to nodes that match a particular <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="defining-templates" id="defining-templates"/>6.1 Defining Templates</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-template"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:template<br/>  match? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  priority? = <var>number</var><br/>  mode? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</code></p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-template" id="dt-template" title="template"/>An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration
defines a <b>template</b>, which contains a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
for creating
nodes and/or atomic values. A template can serve either as a
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>, invoked by matching nodes against
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>, or as a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>,
invoked explicitly by name. It is also possible for the same template to serve in both capacities.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0500"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0500] </span></a>An
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> have either a <code>match</code>
attribute or a <code>name</code> attribute, or both. An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element
that has no <code>match</code> attribute <span class="verb">must</span> have no <code>mode</code> attribute and no
<code>priority</code> attribute.
</p><p>If an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element has a <code>match</code> attribute, then
it is a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>. If it has a <code>name</code> attribute,
then it is a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>.</p><p>A <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a> may be invoked in a number of ways,
depending on whether it is a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>,
a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>, or both. The result of invoking the template is the
result of evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
contained in the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element (see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>).</p><p>If an <code>as</code> attribute is present, the <code>as</code> attribute defines the required type
of the result.
The result of evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
is then converted to the required type using the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.
If no <code>as</code> attribute is specified, the default value is <code>item()*</code>, which permits
any value. No conversion then takes place.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0505"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0505] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the result of evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
cannot be converted to the required type.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="defining-template-rules" id="defining-template-rules"/>6.2 Defining Template Rules</h3><p>This section describes <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>.
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">Named templates</a> are described
in <a href="#named-templates"><i>10.1 Named Templates</i></a>.</p><p>A <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> is specified using
the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element
with a <code>match</code> attribute.
The <code>match</code> attribute is a <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>
that identifies the node or nodes to which the rule applies.
The result of applying the template rule is the
result of evaluating the sequence constructor contained in the
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element, with the matching node used
as the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10188" id="d5e10188"/>Example: A simple Template Rule</div><p>For example, an XML document might contain:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>This is an &lt;emph&gt;important&lt;/emph&gt; point.</pre></div><p>The following <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
matches <code>emph</code> elements and
produces a <code>fo:wrapper</code> element with a
<code>font-weight</code> property of <code>bold</code>.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="emph"&gt;
&lt;fo:wrapper font-weight="bold" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:wrapper&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
</pre></div></div><p>A <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> is evaluated when
an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction selects a node that matches the pattern
specified in the <code>match</code> attribute. The <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
is described in the next section. If several template rules match a selected node, only one of them
is evaluated, as described in <a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="applying-templates" id="applying-templates"/>6.3 Applying Template Rules</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-apply-templates"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:apply-templates<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  mode? = <var>token</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a> | <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>)* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
takes as input a sequence of nodes (typically nodes in a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>), and produces
as output a sequence of items; these will often be nodes to be
added to a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p><p>If the instruction has one or more <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
children, then the input sequence is sorted as described in <a href="#sorting"><i>13 Sorting</i></a>.
The result of this sort is referred to below as the <b>sorted sequence</b>;
if there are no <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements, then the sorted sequence is the same
as the input sequence.</p><p>Each node in the input sequence is processed by finding a
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> whose <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>
matches that node. If there is more than one,
the best among them is chosen, using rules described in <a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>.
If there is no template rule whose pattern matches the node, a built-in template rule
is used (see <a href="#built-in-rule"><i>6.6 Built-in Template Rules</i></a>). The chosen template rule is evaluated.
The rule that matches the <var>N</var>th node in the sorted sequence is
evaluated with that node as the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>, with
<var>N</var> as the <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>,
and with the length of the sorted sequence as the <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>.
Each template rule that is evaluated produces a sequence of items as its result.
The resulting sequences
(one for each node in the sorted sequence) are then concatenated, to form
a single sequence. They are concatenated retaining the order of the nodes
in the sorted sequence. The final concatenated sequence
forms the result of the
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10299" id="d5e10299"/>Example: Applying Template Rules</div><p>Suppose the source document is as follows:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;message&gt;Proceed &lt;emph&gt;at once&lt;/emph&gt; to the exit!&lt;/message&gt;</pre></div><p>This can be processed using the two template rules shown below.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="message"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()"/&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="emph"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()"/&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>There is no template rule
for the document node; the built-in template rule for this node will cause the <code>message</code>
element to be processed. The template rule for the <code>message</code> element causes a <code>p</code>
element to be written to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>; the contents of this <code>p</code> element are constructed
as the result of the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction. This instruction selects
the three child nodes of the <code>message</code> element (a text node containing the value "<code>Proceed </code>",
an <code>emph</code> element node, and a text node containing the value "<code> to the exit!</code>").
The two text nodes are processed using the built-in template rule for text nodes, which returns a copy
of the text node. The <code>emph</code> element is processed using the explicit template rule that specifies
<code>match="emph"</code>.</p><p>When the <code>emph</code> element is processed, this template rule constructs a <code>b</code> element. The
contents of the <code>b</code> element are constructed by means of another <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instruction, which in this case selects a single node (the text node containing the value "<code>at once</code>").
This is again processed using the built-in template rule for text nodes, which returns a copy of the text node.</p><p>The final result of the <code>match="message"</code> template rule thus consists of a <code>p</code> element
node with three children: a text node containing the value "<code>Proceed </code>", a <code>b</code> element that
is the parent of a text node containing the value "<code>at once</code>", and a text node containing the value
"<code> to the exit!</code>". This <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> might be serialized as:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;p&gt;Proceed &lt;b&gt;at once&lt;/b&gt; to the exit!&lt;/p&gt;</pre></div></div><p>The default value of the <code>select</code> attribute is <code>child::node()</code>,
which causes all the children of context node to be processed.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0510"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0510] </span></a>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if
an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction with no <code>select</code> attribute is evaluated when
the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is not a node.
</p><p>A <code>select</code> attribute can be used to process nodes
selected by an expression instead of processing all children. The
value of the <code>select</code> attribute is an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>. The expression <span class="verb">must</span>
evaluate to a sequence of nodes (it can contain
zero, one, or more nodes).</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0520"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0520] </span></a>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if
the sequence returned by the <code>select</code> expression
contains an item that is not a node.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In XSLT 1.0, the <code>select</code> attribute selected a set of nodes, which
by default were processed in document order. In XSLT 2.0, it selects a sequence of nodes.
In cases that would have been valid in XSLT 1.0, the expression will return a sequence of
nodes in document order, so the effect is the same.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10458" id="d5e10458"/>Example: Applying Templates to Selected Nodes</div><p>The following example processes all of the <code>given-name</code> children
of the <code>author</code> elements that are children of
<code>author-group</code>:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="author-group"&gt;
&lt;fo:wrapper&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="author/given-name"/&gt;
&lt;/fo:wrapper&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10474" id="d5e10474"/>Example: Applying Templates to Nodes that are not Descendants</div><p>It is also possible to process elements that are not descendants of
the context node. This example assumes that a <code>department</code>
element has <code>group</code> children and <code>employee</code>
descendants. It finds an employee's department and then processes
the <code>group</code> children of the <code>department</code>.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="employee"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
Employee &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="name"/&gt; belongs to group
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="ancestor::department/group"/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10496" id="d5e10496"/>Example: Matching by Schema-Defined Types</div><p>It is possible to write template rules that are matched according to
the schema-defined type of an element or attribute. The following example
applies different formatting to the children of an element depending on their
type:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="product"&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="*"/&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="product/*" priority="3"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="name()"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:next-match/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="product/element(*, xs:decimal) |
product/element(*, xs:double)" priority="2"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="format-number(xs:double(.), '#,###0.00')"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="product/element(*, xs:date)" priority="2"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="format-date(., '[Mn] [D], [Y]')"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="product/*" priority="1.5"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction is described in <a href="#apply-imports"><i>6.7 Overriding Template Rules</i></a>.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10510" id="d5e10510"/>Example: Re-ordering Elements in the Result Tree</div><p>Multiple <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> elements can be used within a
single template to do simple reordering. The following example
creates two HTML tables. The first table is filled with domestic sales
while the second table is filled with foreign sales.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="product"&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="sales/domestic"/&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="sales/foreign"/&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e10520" id="d5e10520"/>Example: Processing Recursive Structures</div><p>It is possible for there to be two matching descendants where one
is a descendant of the other. This case is not treated specially:
both descendants will be processed as usual.</p><p> For example, given a source document</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>the rule</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="doc"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select=".//div"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>will process both the outer <code>div</code> and inner <code>div</code>
elements.</p><p>This means that if the template rule for the <code>div</code> element processes its own children,
then these grandchildren will be processed more than once, which is probably not what is required.
The solution is to process one level at a time in a recursive descent, by using <code>select="div"</code>
in place of <code>select=".//div"</code>
</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
is most commonly used to
process nodes that are descendants of the context node. Such use
of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> cannot result in non-terminating
processing loops. However, when <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> is
used to process elements that are not descendants of the context node,
the possibility arises of non-terminating loops. For example,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="foo"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>Implementations may be able to detect such loops in some cases, but
the possibility exists that a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> may enter a non-terminating
loop that an implementation is unable to detect. This may present a
denial of service security risk.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="conflict" id="conflict"/>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</h3><p>It is possible for a node in a source document to match more than one
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>.
When this happens, only one template rule is evaluated for the node.
The template rule to be used is determined as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>First, only the matching template rule or rules
with the highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> are considered.
Other matching template rules with lower precedence are eliminated from consideration.</p></li><li><p>Next, of the remaining matching
rules, only those with the highest priority are considered. Other matching
template rules with lower priority are eliminated from consideration. The priority of a template rule is
specified by the <code>priority</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration.</p><p><a name="err-XTSE0530"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0530] </span></a>The value of this attribute
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to the rules for the <code>xs:decimal</code>
type defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>. Negative values are permitted.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-default-priority" id="dt-default-priority" title="default priority"/>If no <code>priority</code>
attribute is specified on the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element, a <b>default
priority</b> is computed, based on the syntax of the pattern supplied in the <code>match</code> attribute.<span class="definition">]</span>
The rules are as follows:
</p><ul><li><p>If the pattern contains multiple alternatives separated by
<code>|</code> ,
then the template rule is treated equivalently to a set of template
rules, one for each alternative. However,
it is not an error if a node matches more than one of the alternatives. </p></li><li><p>If the pattern has the form <code>/</code>, then the priority is −0.5.</p></li><li><p>If the pattern has the form of a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
optionally preceded by a <a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>
or has the form <code>processing-instruction(</code>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-StringLiteral">StringLiteral</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
<code>)</code>
or <code>processing-instruction(</code>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>
<code>)</code>
optionally preceded by a <a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>,
then the priority is 0.</p></li><li><p>If the pattern has the form of an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-ElementTest">ElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> or
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-AttributeTest">AttributeTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
optionally preceded by a <a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>,
then the priority is as shown in the table below. In this table, the symbols
<var>E</var>, <var>A</var>, and <var>T</var> represent an arbitrary element name,
attribute name, and type name respectively, while the
symbol <code>*</code> represents itself.
The presence or absence of the
symbol <code>?</code> following a type name
does not affect the priority.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Format</th><th align="left">Priority</th><th align="left">Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<code>element()</code>
</td><td>−0.5</td><td>(equivalent to <code>*</code>)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>element(*)</code>
</td><td>−0.5</td><td>(equivalent to <code>*</code>)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>attribute()</code>
</td><td>−0.5</td><td>(equivalent to <code>@*</code>)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>attribute(*)</code>
</td><td>−0.5</td><td>(equivalent to <code>@*</code>)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>element(<var>E</var>)</code>
</td><td>0</td><td>(equivalent to E)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>element(*,<var>T</var>)</code>
</td><td>0</td><td>(matches by type only)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>attribute(<var>A</var>)</code>
</td><td>0</td><td>(equivalent to <code>@A</code>)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>attribute(*,<var>T</var>)</code>
</td><td>0</td><td>(matches by type only)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>element(<var>E</var>,<var>T</var>)</code>
</td><td>0.25</td><td>(matches by name and type)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>schema-element(<var>E</var>)</code>
</td><td>0.25</td><td>(matches by substitution group and type)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>attribute(<var>A</var>,<var>T</var>)</code>
</td><td>0.25</td><td>(matches by name and type)</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>schema-attribute(<var>A</var>)</code>
</td><td>0.25</td><td>(matches by name and type)</td></tr></tbody></table></li><li><p>If the pattern has the form of a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-DocumentTest">DocumentTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
then if it includes no <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-ElementTest">ElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SchemaElementTest">SchemaElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
the priority is −0.5. If it does
include an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-ElementTest">ElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SchemaElementTest">SchemaElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, then the priority is the same as the priority
of that <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-ElementTest">ElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SchemaElementTest">SchemaElementTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, computed according to the table above.</p></li><li><p>If the pattern has the form <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>
<code>:*</code>
or <code>*:</code>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>,
optionally preceded by a <a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>,
then the priority is −0.25.</p></li><li><p>If the pattern is any other
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-NodeTest">NodeTest</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
optionally preceded by a <a href="#NT-PatternAxis">PatternAxis</a>,
then the priority is −0.5.</p></li><li><p>Otherwise, the priority is 0.5.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In many cases this means that highly selective patterns have higher
priority than less selective patterns. The most common kind of pattern (a pattern that tests for a
node of a particular kind, with a particular
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
or a particular type) has
priority 0. The next less specific kind of pattern (a pattern that
tests for a node of a particular kind and an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> with a
particular namespace URI) has priority −0.25. Patterns less specific
than this (patterns that just test for nodes of a given kind)
have priority −0.5. Patterns that specify both the name
and the required type have a priority of +0.25, putting them above patterns that
only specify the name <em>or</em> the type.
Patterns more specific than this, for example patterns that
include predicates or that specify the ancestry of the required node,
have priority 0.5.</p><p>However, it is not invariably true that
a more selective pattern has higher priority than a less selective pattern.
For example, the priority of the pattern <code>node()[self::*]</code> is higher than that of
the pattern <code>salary</code>. Similarly, the patterns <code>attribute(*, xs:decimal)</code> and
<code>attribute(*, xs:short)</code> have the same priority, despite the fact that the latter pattern matches
a subset of the nodes matched by the former.
Therefore, to achieve clarity in a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
it is good practice to allocate explicit priorities.</p></div></li></ol><p>
<a name="err-XTRE0540"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE0540] </span></a>It is a
<a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the conflict resolution algorithm for template rules
leaves more than one matching template
rule. The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to select, from the matching
template rules that are left, the one that occurs last in
<a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="modes" id="modes"/>6.5 Modes</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-mode" id="dt-mode" title="mode"/>
<b>Modes</b>
allow a node in a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> to be processed multiple times, each time
producing a different result. They also allow different sets
of <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>
to be active when processing different
trees, for example when processing documents loaded using the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function
(see <a href="#document"><i>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</i></a>) or when processing
<a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary trees</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-default-mode" id="dt-default-mode" title="default mode"/>There is always a <b>default mode</b>
available. The default mode is an unnamed <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>, and it is used when
no <code>mode</code> attribute is specified on an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Every <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a> other than the
<a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a> is identified by a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.</p><p>A <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> is applicable to
one or more modes. The modes to which it is applicable are defined by the <code>mode</code> attribute
of the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element.
If the attribute is omitted, then the template rule is applicable to the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>. If the attribute
is present, then its value <span class="verb">must</span> be a non-empty whitespace-separated list of tokens, each of which defines a mode
to which the template rule is applicable. Each token <span class="verb">must</span> be one of the following:</p><ul><li><p>a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a> to define the name of the mode</p></li><li><p>the token <code>#default</code>, to indicate that the template rule is applicable
to the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>
</p></li><li><p>the token <code>#all</code>, to indicate that the
template rule is applicable to all modes (that is, to the default
mode and to every mode that is named in an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
or <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration anywhere in the stylesheet).</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0550"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0550] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the list is empty,
if the same token is included more than once in the list, if the list contains an invalid token,
or if the token <code>#all</code> appears together with any other value.
</p><p>The <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
element also has an optional <code>mode</code> attribute. The value of this
attribute <span class="verb">must</span> either be a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a> to define the name of a mode, or the token <code>#default</code>, to
indicate that the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a> is to be used, or the token <code>#current</code>, to indicate that
the <a title="current mode" href="#dt-current-mode">current mode</a> is to be used.
If the attribute is omitted, the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a> is used.</p><p>When searching for a template rule to process each node selected by
the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction, only those template rules that are
applicable to the selected mode are considered.</p><p><span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-current-mode" id="dt-current-mode" title="current mode"/>At any point in the processing
of a stylesheet, there is a <b>current mode</b>. When the transformation is initiated,
the current mode is the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>, unless a different initial
mode has been supplied, as described in <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>.
Whenever an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instruction is evaluated, the current mode becomes the mode selected by this instruction.<span class="definition">]</span>
When a stylesheet function is called, the current mode <span>is set to</span> the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>.
<span>While
evaluating global variables and parameters, and the sequence constructor
contained in <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> or <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>, the current mode is set to the default mode.</span>
No other instruction changes the current mode.
<span>The
current mode while evaluating an <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>
is the same as the current mode of the caller.</span>
On completion of the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instruction, or on return from a stylesheet function call,
the current mode reverts to its previous value. The current mode is used when an
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction uses the syntax <code>mode="#current"</code>;
it is also used by the <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>
and <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
instructions (see <a href="#apply-imports"><i>6.7 Overriding Template Rules</i></a>).</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="built-in-rule" id="built-in-rule"/>6.6 Built-in Template Rules</h3><p>When a node is selected by <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and there is no
template rule in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that can be used to
process that node, a built-in template rule is evaluated instead. </p><p>The built-in template rules apply to all modes.</p><p>The built-in rule for document nodes and element nodes
is equivalent to calling <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> with no <code>select</code>
attribute, and with the <code>mode</code> attribute set to <code>#current</code>. If
the built-in rule was invoked with parameters, those parameters are passed on in the implicit
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e11235" id="d5e11235"/>Example: Using a Built-In Template Rule</div><p>For example, suppose the stylesheet contains the following instruction:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="title" mode="mm"&gt;
&lt;xsl:with-param name="init" select="10"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;</pre></div><p>If there is no explicit template rule that matches the <code>title</code> element,
then the following implicit rule is used:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="title" mode="#all"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="init"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates mode="#current"&gt;
&lt;xsl:with-param name="init" select="$init"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>The built-in <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
for text and attribute nodes returns a text node containing the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> of the context node.
It is effectively:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="text()|@*" mode="#all"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This text node may have a string value that is zero-length.</p></div><p>The built-in <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> for processing instructions and comments
does nothing (it returns the empty sequence).</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction()|comment()" mode="#all"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The built-in <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> for namespace nodes is also to do
nothing. There is no pattern that can match a namespace node, so the
built-in template rule is always used when <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> selects a
namespace node.</p><p>The built-in <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>
have lower <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> than all other
template rules. Thus, the stylesheet author can override a built-in template
rule by including an explicit template rule.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="apply-imports" id="apply-imports"/>6.7 Overriding Template Rules</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-apply-imports"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:apply-imports&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:apply-imports&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-next-match"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:next-match&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a> | <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>)* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:next-match&gt;</code></p><p>A <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> that
is being used to override another template rule
(see <a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>) can use the
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
instruction to invoke the overridden template rule. The <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> instruction
only considers template rules in imported stylesheet modules; the <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
instruction considers all other template rules of lower <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>
and/or priority.
Both instructions will invoke the built-in template rule for the node (see
<a href="#built-in-rule"><i>6.6 Built-in Template Rules</i></a>) if no other template rule is found.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-current-template-rule" id="dt-current-template-rule" title="current template rule"/>At any point in the processing
of a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, there may be a
<b>current template rule</b>. Whenever a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> is
chosen as a result of evaluating <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>, or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>,
the template rule becomes the current
template rule for the evaluation of the rule's sequence constructor. When an
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>
instruction is evaluated, or when evaluating a sequence constructor contained in
an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> or <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> element, or when
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
is called (see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>), the current
template rule becomes null for the evaluation of that instruction
or function.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The current template rule is not affected by invoking
named templates (see <a href="#named-templates"><i>10.1 Named Templates</i></a>) or named attribute
sets (see <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>). While evaluating a
<a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>
or the default value of a <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>
(see <a href="#global-variables"><i>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</i></a>)
the current template rule is null.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>These rules ensure that when <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> is called, the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
is the same as when the
current template rule was invoked, and is always a node.</p></div><p>
Both <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>
and <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> search for
a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> that matches the
<a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>, and that is applicable to the
<a title="current mode" href="#dt-current-mode">current mode</a>
(see <a href="#modes"><i>6.5 Modes</i></a>). In choosing
a template rule, they use the usual criteria such as the priority and
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> of
the template rules, but they consider as candidates only
a subset of the template rules in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>. This subset differs between the
two instructions:</p><ul><li><p>The <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> instruction
considers as candidates
only those template rules contained in <a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet levels</a>
that are descendants in the <a title="import tree" href="#dt-import-tree">import tree</a>
of the <a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet
level</a> that contains the
<a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This is <em>not</em> the same as saying that the search considers
all template rules whose import precedence is lower than that of the current template rule.</p></div></li><li><p>The <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction
considers as candidates all those template rules that come after the
<a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a>
in the ordering of template rules implied by the conflict resolution rules
given in <a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>. That is, it considers all template rules
with lower <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>
than the <a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a>,
plus the template rules that are at the same import precedence
that have lower priority than the current template rule. If the processor
has recovered from the error that occurs when two matching template rules have the
same import precedence and priority, then it also considers all matching template rules
with the same import precedence and priority that occur before the current template
rule in <a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>As explained in <a href="#conflict"><i>6.4 Conflict Resolution for Template Rules</i></a>, a template rule whose
match pattern contains multiple alternatives separated by <code>|</code> is treated equivalently
to a set of template rules, one for each alternative. This means that where the same node matches
more than one alternative, and the alternatives have different priority, it is possible for an
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction to cause the current template rule
to be invoked recursively. This situation does not occur when the alternatives have the
same priority.</p></div></li></ul><p>If no matching template rule is found that satisfies these criteria, the
built-in template rule for the
node kind is used (see <a href="#built-in-rule"><i>6.6 Built-in Template Rules</i></a>).</p><p>An <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>
or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction may use
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> child elements to pass
parameters to the chosen <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
(see <a href="#with-param"><i>10.1.1 Passing Parameters to Templates</i></a>). It also passes on any <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a>
as described in <a href="#tunnel-params"><i>10.1.2 Tunnel Parameters</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0560"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0560] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> is evaluated when the
<a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a> is null.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e11525" id="d5e11525"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:apply-imports</code>
</div><p>For example, suppose the stylesheet <code>doc.xsl</code> contains a
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> for <code>example</code> elements:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="example"&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>Another stylesheet could import <code>doc.xsl</code> and modify the
treatment of <code>example</code> elements as follows:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:import href="doc.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="example"&gt;
&lt;div style="border: solid red"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-imports/&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The combined effect would be to transform an <code>example</code>
into an element of the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;div style="border: solid red"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</pre></div></div><p>An <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instruction appearing as a child
of an <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction is ignored by an XSLT 2.0 processor,
but can be used to define fallback behavior when the stylesheet is processed by an
XSLT 1.0 processor in forwards-compatible mode.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="for-each" id="for-each"/>7 Repetition</h2><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-for-each"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:for-each<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> instruction
processes each item in a sequence of items, evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
within the <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> instruction once for each item
in that sequence.</p><p>
The <code>select</code> attribute is <span class="verb">required</span>, and
the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> evaluate to a sequence,
called the input sequence. If there is an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
element present (see <a href="#sorting"><i>13 Sorting</i></a>) the input sequence
is sorted to produce a sorted sequence. Otherwise, the sorted sequence
is the same as the input sequence.</p><p>The <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> instruction contains a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.
The <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
is evaluated once for each item in the sorted sequence,
with the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> set as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is the item being processed.
If this is a node, it will
also be the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>. If it
is not a node, there will be no context node: that is, any attempt to
reference the context node will result in a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>.
</p></li><li><p>The <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a> is the position of this item
in the sorted sequence.</p></li><li><p>The <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a> is the size
of the sorted sequence (which is the same as the
size of the input sequence).</p></li></ul><p> For each item in the input sequence, evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> produces a sequence
of items (see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>).
These output sequences are concatenated; if item <var>Q</var> follows
item <var>P</var> in the sorted sequence, then the result of evaluating the sequence constructor
with <var>Q</var> as the context item is concatenated after the result of evaluating the sequence constructor
with <var>P</var> as the context item.
The result of the <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> instruction
is the concatenated sequence of items.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>With XSLT 1.0, the selected nodes were processed in document order.
With XSLT 2.0, XPath expressions that would have been valid under XPath 1.0 (such
as path expressions and union expressions) will return a sequence of nodes
that is already in document order, so backwards compatibility is maintained.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e11677" id="d5e11677"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:for-each</code>
</div><p>For example, given an XML document with this structure</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;customers&gt;
&lt;customer&gt;
&lt;name&gt;...&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;order&gt;...&lt;/order&gt;
&lt;order&gt;...&lt;/order&gt;
&lt;/customer&gt;
&lt;customer&gt;
&lt;name&gt;...&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;order&gt;...&lt;/order&gt;
&lt;order&gt;...&lt;/order&gt;
&lt;/customer&gt;
&lt;/customers&gt;</pre></div><p>the following would create an HTML document containing a table with
a row for each <code>customer</code> element</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Customers&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="customers/customer"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="name"/&gt;
&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="order"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="conditionals" id="conditionals"/>8 Conditional Processing</h2><p>There are two instructions in XSLT that support conditional
processing: <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> and
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a>. The <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> instruction provides
simple if-then conditionality; the <a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> instruction
supports selection of one choice when there are several
possibilities.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xsl-if" id="xsl-if"/>8.1 Conditional Processing with <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a>
</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-if"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:if<br/>  <b>test</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:if&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> element has a mandatory <code>test</code> attribute,
which specifies an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.
The content is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>The result of the <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> instruction
depends on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-ebv">effective boolean value</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> of the expression
in the <code>test</code> attribute. The rules for determining the
effective boolean value of an expression are given in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>: they
are the same as the rules used for XPath conditional expressions.</p><p>If the effective boolean value of
the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> is true, then
the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> is evaluated
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>),
and the resulting node sequence is returned as the result of
the <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> instruction; otherwise,
the sequence constructor is not evaluated, and
the empty sequence is returned.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e11764" id="d5e11764"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:if</code>
</div><p>In the following example, the names in a group of names are formatted
as a comma separated list:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="namelist/name"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;xsl:if test="not(position()=last())"&gt;, &lt;/xsl:if&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The following colors every other table row yellow:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="item"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="bgcolor"&gt;yellow&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:if&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xsl-choose" id="xsl-choose"/>8.2 Conditional Processing with <a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a>
</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-choose"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:choose&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-when">xsl:when</a>+, <a href="#element-otherwise">xsl:otherwise</a>?) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-when"/><code>&lt;xsl:when<br/>  <b>test</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:when&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-otherwise"/><code>&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> element selects one among a number of
possible alternatives. It consists of a sequence of one or more
<a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> elements followed by an optional
<a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> element. Each <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a>
element has a single attribute, <code>test</code>, which specifies an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>. The content of the
<a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> and <a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> elements is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>When an <a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> element is processed, each
of the <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> elements is tested in turn
(that is, in the order that the elements appear in the stylesheet),
until one of the
<a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> elements is satisfied. If none of the
<a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> elements is satisfied, then the <a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> element
is considered, as described below.</p><p>An <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> element is satisfied if
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-ebv">effective boolean value</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> of the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
in its <code>test</code> attribute is <code>true</code>. The rules for determining the
effective boolean value of an expression are given in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>: they
are the same as the rules used for XPath conditional expressions.</p><p>The content
of the first, and only the first, <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> element
that is satisfied is evaluated,
and the resulting sequence is returned as the result of the
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> instruction. If no <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a>
element is satisfied,
the content of the <a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> element is
evaluated, and the resulting sequence is returned as the result
of the <a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> instruction.
If no <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> element is satisfied, and no
<a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> element is present, the result of the
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> instruction
is an empty sequence.</p><p>Only the sequence constructor
of the selected <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> or <a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a>
instruction is evaluated. The <code>test</code> expressions
for <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> instructions after the selected one are not evaluated.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e11909" id="d5e11909"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:choose</code>
</div><p>The following example enumerates items in an ordered list using
arabic numerals, letters, or roman numerals depending on the depth to
which the ordered lists are nested.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="orderedlist/listitem"&gt;
&lt;fo:list-item indent-start='2pi'&gt;
&lt;fo:list-item-label&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="level"
select="count(ancestor::orderedlist) mod 3"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test='$level=1'&gt;
&lt;xsl:number format="i"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test='$level=2'&gt;
&lt;xsl:number format="a"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:number format="1"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;. &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/fo:list-item-label&gt;
&lt;fo:list-item-body&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:list-item-body&gt;
&lt;/fo:list-item&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="variables-and-parameters" id="variables-and-parameters"/>9 Variables and Parameters</h2><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-variable-binding-element" id="dt-variable-binding-element" title="variable-binding element"/>The
two elements <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
are referred to as <b>variable-binding elements</b>
<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-variable" id="dt-variable" title="variable"/>The <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element declares a
<b>variable</b>, which may be a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>
or a <a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-parameter" id="dt-parameter" title="parameter"/>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
element declares a <b>parameter</b>, which may be a
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>,
a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>,
or a <a title="function parameter" href="#dt-function-parameter">function parameter</a>. A parameter
is a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> with the additional property that its value can be set
by the caller when the stylesheet, the template, or the function is invoked.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-value" id="dt-value" title="value"/>A variable is a binding between a name and a value.
The <b>value</b> of a variable is
any sequence (of nodes and/or atomic values), as defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="variables" id="variables"/>9.1 Variables</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-variable"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:variable<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element has a
<span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute, which specifies the name of the
variable. The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element has an
optional <code>as</code> attribute, which specifies the
<a title="required type" href="#dt-required-type">required type</a> of the
variable. The value of the <code>as</code> attribute is a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SequenceType">SequenceType</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
as defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-supplied-value" id="dt-supplied-value" title="supplied value"/>The value of the variable is
computed using the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> given in the
<code>select</code> attribute or the contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
as described in <a href="#variable-values"><i>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</i></a>.
This value is referred to as the <b>supplied value</b> of the variable.<span class="definition">]</span>
If the <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element has a <code>select</code>
attribute, then the sequence constructor <span class="verb">must</span> be empty.</p><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute
is specified, then the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the
variable is converted to the required type, using the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0570"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0570] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of a variable
cannot be converted to the required type.
</p><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute is omitted, the
<a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the variable is used
directly, and no conversion takes place.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="parameters" id="parameters"/>9.2 Parameters</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-param"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:param<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  required? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  tunnel? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:param&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element may be used as a child of <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>, to define
a parameter to the transformation; or as a child of <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> to define a parameter to a
template, which may be supplied when the template is invoked using <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>
or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>; or as a child of <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> to define a parameter
to a stylesheet function, which may be supplied when the function is called from an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element has a
<span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute, which specifies the name of the
parameter. The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0580"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0580] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if two
parameters of a template or of a stylesheet function have the same name.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>For rules concerning stylesheet parameters, see <a href="#global-variables"><i>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</i></a>. Local
variables may <a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadow</a> template parameters and function parameters: see
<a href="#scope-of-variables"><i>9.7 Scope of Variables</i></a>.</p></div><p>The <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the parameter is the
value supplied by the caller. If no value was supplied by the caller, and if the parameter
is not mandatory, then the supplied value is
computed using the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> given in the
<code>select</code> attribute or the contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
as described in <a href="#variable-values"><i>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</i></a>.
If the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element has a <code>select</code>
attribute, then the sequence constructor <span class="verb">must</span> be empty.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This specification does not dictate whether and when the default value
of a parameter is evaluated. For example, if the default is specified as
<code>&lt;xsl:param name="p"&gt;&lt;foo/&gt;&lt;/xsl:param&gt;</code>, then it is not specified whether a
distinct <code>foo</code> element node will be created on each invocation of the template, or whether
the same <code>foo</code> element node will be used for each invocation. However, it is permissible for the default
value to depend on the values of other parameters, or on the evaluation context, in which case the default must
effectively be evaluated on each invocation.</p></div><p>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element has an
optional <code>as</code> attribute, which specifies the
<a title="required type" href="#dt-required-type">required type</a> of the
parameter. The value of the <code>as</code> attribute is a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SequenceType">SequenceType</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>,
as defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute
is specified, then the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the
parameter is converted to the required type, using the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0590"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0590] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the conversion of the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of a
parameter to its required type fails.
</p><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute is omitted, the
<a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the
parameter is used directly, and no conversion takes place.</p><p>The optional <code>required</code> attribute may be used
to indicate that a parameter is mandatory. This attribute may be specified for
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a> and for
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>;
it <span class="verb">must not</span> be specified for <a title="function parameter" href="#dt-function-parameter">function parameters</a>,
which are always mandatory. A parameter is mandatory
if it is a <a title="function parameter" href="#dt-function-parameter">function parameter</a> or
if the <code>required</code> attribute is present and has the value <code>yes</code>. Otherwise,
the parameter is optional. If the parameter is mandatory, then
the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> be empty and <span class="verb">must not</span> have a <code>select</code>
attribute.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0600"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0600] </span></a>If a default value is given explicitly, that is,
if there is either a <code>select</code>
attribute or a non-empty <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, then
it is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the default value
cannot be converted to the required type, using the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.
</p><p>If an optional parameter has no <code>select</code>
attribute and has an empty <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
and if there is no <code>as</code> attribute, then the default value of the parameter
is a zero length string.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0610"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0610] </span></a>If an optional parameter has no <code>select</code>
attribute and has an empty <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
and if there is an <code>as</code> attribute, then the default value of the parameter
is an empty sequence. If the empty sequence is not a valid instance of the required type
defined in the <code>as</code> attribute, then the parameter is treated as a required
parameter, which means that it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the caller supplies no value for the parameter.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The effect of these rules is that specifying
<code>&lt;xsl:param name="p" as="xs:date" select="2"/&gt;</code>
is an error, but if the default value of the parameter is never used, then the processor has discretion whether
or not to report the error. By contrast,
<code>&lt;xsl:param name="p" as="xs:date"/&gt;</code>
is treated as if <code>required="yes"</code>
had been specified: the empty sequence is not a valid instance of <code>xs:date</code>, so in effect there is no default
value and the parameter is therefore treated as being mandatory.</p></div><p>The optional <code>tunnel</code> attribute may be used
to indicate that a parameter is a <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a>.
The default is <code>no</code>; the value <code>yes</code> may be specified only
for <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>.
Tunnel parameters are described in <a href="#tunnel-params"><i>10.1.2 Tunnel Parameters</i></a>
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="variable-values" id="variable-values"/>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</h3><p>A <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>
may specify the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a>
or <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a> in
four different ways.</p><ul><li><p>If the <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a> has a <code>select</code>
attribute, then the value of the attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be an
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> and the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the variable
is the value that results from evaluating the expression. In this
case, the content of the variable-binding element <span class="verb">must</span> be empty.</p></li><li><p>If the <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>
has empty content and has neither
a <code>select</code> attribute nor an <code>as</code> attribute,
then the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of the variable is a
zero-length string. Thus</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x"/&gt;</pre></div><p>is equivalent to</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="''"/&gt;</pre></div></li><li><p>If a
<a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a> has no <code>select</code>
attribute and has non-empty content (that is, the variable-binding element
has one or more child nodes), and has no <code>as</code> attribute,
then the content of the
variable-binding element specifies the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a>.
The content of the variable-binding element is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>; a new
document is constructed with a document
node having as its children
the sequence of nodes that results from evaluating the sequence constructor
and then applying the rules given in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.
The value of the variable is then a singleton sequence containing
this document node. For further information, see
<a href="#temporary-trees"><i>9.4 Creating implicit document nodes</i></a>.
</p></li><li><p>If a <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>
has an <code>as</code> attribute but no <code>select</code> attribute,
then the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a>
is the sequence that results from evaluating the (possibly empty)
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> contained within
the variable-binding element (see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>).
</p></li></ul><p>These combinations are summarized in the table below.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><col width="12%" span="1"/><col width="12%" span="1"/><col width="12%" span="1"/><col span="1"/><thead><tr><th align="left">select attribute</th><th align="left">as attribute</th><th align="left">content</th><th align="left">Effect</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">empty</td><td valign="top">Value is obtained by evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">empty</td><td valign="top">Value is obtained by evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute, adjusted to the type required by the <code>as</code> attribute</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">Static error</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">Static error</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">empty</td><td valign="top">Value is a zero-length string</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">empty</td><td valign="top">Value is an empty sequence, provided the <code>as</code> attribute permits an empty sequence</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">Value is a document node whose content
is obtained by evaluating the sequence constructor</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">absent</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">present</td><td valign="top">Value is obtained by evaluating the sequence constructor, adjusted to the type required by the <code>as</code> attribute</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0620"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0620] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a> has a <code>select</code>
attribute and has non-empty content.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e12636" id="d5e12636"/>Example: Values of Variables</div><p>The value of the following variable is the sequence of integers (1, 2, 3):</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="i" as="xs:integer*" select="1 to 3"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is an integer, assuming that the attribute
<code>@size</code> exists, and is annotated either as an integer, or as
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="i" as="xs:integer" select="@size"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is a zero-length string:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="z"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is document node containing an empty element as a
child:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="doc"&gt;&lt;c/&gt;&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is sequence of integers (2, 4, 6):</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="seq" as="xs:integer*"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="1 to 3"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select=".*2"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is sequence of parentless attribute nodes:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="attset" as="attribute()+"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="x"&gt;2&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="y"&gt;3&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="z"&gt;4&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div><p>The value of the following variable is an empty sequence:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="empty" as="empty-sequence()"/&gt;</pre></div></div><p>The actual value of the variable depends on the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a>,
as described above, and the required type, which is determined by
the value of the <code>as</code> attribute.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e12682" id="d5e12682"/>Example: Pitfalls with Numeric Predicates</div><p>When a variable is used to select nodes by position, be careful
not to do:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="n"&gt;2&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:value-of select="td[$n]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>This will output the values of all the <code>td</code> elements, space-separated
(or in backwards compatibility mode, the value of the first <code>td</code> element), because the
variable <code>n</code> will be bound to a node, not a number. Instead, do one of the following:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="n" select="2"/&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:value-of select="td[$n]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>or</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="n"&gt;2&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:value-of select="td[position()=$n]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>or</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="n" as="xs:integer"&gt;2&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:value-of select="td[$n]"/&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="temporary-trees" id="temporary-trees"/>9.4 Creating implicit document nodes</h3><p>A document node is created implicitly when evaluating an
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>, <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>, or <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>
element that has non-empty content and that has
no <code>as</code> attribute. This element is referred
to as the variable-binding element. The value of the <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a>
is a single node, the document node
of the <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>. The
content of the document node is formed from the result of evaluating
the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
contained within the variable-binding element,
as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The construct:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="tree"&gt;
&lt;a/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div><p>can be regarded as a shorthand for:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="tree" as="document-node()"&gt;
&lt;xsl:document validation="preserve"&gt;
&lt;a/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:document&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div></div><p>The base URI of the document node
is taken from the base URI of the variable binding element in the stylesheet.
(See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-base-uri">Section
5.2 base-uri Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup> in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>)</p><p>No document-level validation takes place (which means, for example, that there is
no checking that ID values are unique). However, type annotations on nodes within the new tree are copied
unchanged.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The base URI of other nodes in the tree is determined by the rules
for constructing complex content. The effect of these rules is that the base URI of a node in the
temporary tree is determined as
if all the nodes in the temporary tree came from a single entity whose URI
was the base URI of the <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>.
Thus, the base URI of the document node will be equal
to the base URI of the variable-binding element; an
<code>xml:base</code> attribute within the temporary tree will change the
base URI for its parent element and that element's descendants, just
as it would within a document constructed by parsing.</p></div><p>The <code>document-uri</code> and <code>unparsed-entities</code>
properties of the new document node are set to empty.</p><p>A <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a> is
available for processing
in exactly the same way as any source document. For example, its nodes
are accessible using path expressions, and they can be processed using
instructions such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>.
Also, the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> functions
can be used to find nodes
within a temporary tree rooted at a document node,
provided that at the time the function is called, the context item
is a node within the temporary tree.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e12790" id="d5e12790"/>Example: Two-Phase Transformation</div><p>For example, the following stylesheet uses a temporary tree as the intermediate
result of a two-phase transformation, using different <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">modes</a>
for the two phases (see <a href="#modes"><i>6.5 Modes</i></a>). Typically, the template
rules in module <code>phase1.xsl</code> will be declared with <code>mode="phase1"</code>, while
those in module <code>phase2.xsl</code> will be declared with <code>mode="phase2"</code>: </p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;xsl:import href="phase1.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:import href="phase2.xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="intermediate"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="/" mode="phase1"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="$intermediate" mode="phase2"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The algorithm for matching nodes against template rules is
exactly the same regardless which tree the nodes come from. If different
template rules are to be used when processing different trees, then unless nodes
from different trees can be distinguished by means of <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">patterns</a>,
it is
a good idea to use <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">modes</a> to ensure that each tree is
processed using the appropriate set of template rules.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="global-variables" id="global-variables"/>9.5 Global Variables and Parameters</h3><p>Both <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> are
allowed as <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> elements:
that is, they may appear as children of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-global-variable" id="dt-global-variable" title="global variable"/>A
top-level <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>
declares a <b>global variable</b> that
is visible everywhere (except where it
is <a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadowed</a> by another
binding).<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stylesheet-parameter" id="dt-stylesheet-parameter" title="stylesheet parameter"/>A top-level <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element
declares a <b>stylesheet parameter</b>.
A stylesheet parameter is a global variable with the additional property
that its value can be supplied
by the caller when a transformation is initiated.<span class="definition">]</span> As described in
<a href="#parameters"><i>9.2 Parameters</i></a>, a stylesheet parameter may be declared as being mandatory, or may have
a default value specified for use when no value is supplied by the caller.
The mechanism by which the caller supplies a value
for a stylesheet parameter is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
An XSLT <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> provide such a mechanism.</p><p>It is an error if no value is supplied for a mandatory stylesheet
parameter <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE0050">ERR XTDE0050</a>]</span>.</p><p>If a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains more than one
binding for a global variable of a particular name, then the binding with the
highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a> is used.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0630"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0630] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains more than one binding of a global
variable with the same name and same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>,
unless it also contains another binding with the same name and higher import precedence.
</p><p>For a global variable or the default value of a stylesheet parameter,
the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> or <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
specifying the variable value is
evaluated with a <a title="singleton focus" href="#dt-singleton-focus">singleton focus</a> based
on the root node of the
tree containing the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>.
An XPath error will be reported if the evaluation of a global variable or parameter
references the context item, context position, or context size when no initial context node is supplied.
The values of other components of the dynamic context are the initial values
as defined in <a href="#xpath-dynamic-context"><i>5.4.3 Initializing the Dynamic Context</i></a> and <a href="#additional-dynamic-context"><i>5.4.4 Additional Dynamic Context Components used by XSLT</i></a>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e12923" id="d5e12923"/>Example: A Stylesheet Parameter</div><p>The following example declares a global parameter
<code>para-font-size</code>,
which is referenced in an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:param name="para-font-size" as="xs:string"&gt;12pt&lt;/xsl:param&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="para"&gt;
&lt;fo:block font-size="{$para-font-size}"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
</pre></div><p>The implementation must provide a mechanism allowing the user to supply
a value for the parameter <code>para-font-size</code> when invoking the stylesheet; the value <code>12pt</code>
acts as a default.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="local-variables" id="local-variables"/>9.6 Local Variables and Parameters</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-local-variable" id="dt-local-variable" title="local variable"/>As
well as being allowed as <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> elements, the
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element is also
allowed in <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructors</a>. Such a variable
is known as a <b>local variable</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-template-parameter" id="dt-template-parameter" title="template parameter"/>
An <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element may appear as a child of an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
element, before any non-<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> children of that element. Such a parameter
is known as a <b>template parameter</b>. A template parameter is a
<a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a> with the additional
property that its value can be set when the template
is called, using any of the instructions <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>, or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-function-parameter" id="dt-function-parameter" title="function parameter"/>
An <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element may appear as a child of an <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
element, before any non-<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> children of that element. Such a parameter
is known as a <b>function parameter</b>. A function parameter is a
<a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a> with the additional
property that its value can be set when the function
is called, using a function call in an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The result of evaluating
a local <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> or <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element (that is,
the contribution it makes to the result of the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> it is part of)
is an empty sequence.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="scope-of-variables" id="scope-of-variables"/>9.7 Scope of Variables</h3><p>For any <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>,
there is a region
(more specifically, a set of element nodes)
of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
within which the binding is
visible. The set of variable bindings in scope for an
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> consists of those bindings that
are visible at the point in
the stylesheet where the expression occurs.</p><p>A global <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable binding element</a> is
visible everywhere in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
(including other <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>) except within the
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> or <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
element itself and any region where it is
<a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadowed</a> by another variable binding.</p><p>A local <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable binding element</a>
is visible for all following siblings and their descendants, with two exceptions:
it is not visible in any region where it is <a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadowed</a> by
another variable binding, and it is not visible within the subtree rooted at an <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>
instruction that is a sibling of the variable binding element.
The binding is not visible for the <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> or <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
element itself.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-shadows" id="dt-shadows" title="shadows"/>A binding <b>shadows</b> another
binding if the binding occurs at a point where the other binding is visible, and
the bindings have the same name.
<span class="definition">]</span>
It is not an error if a binding
established by a local <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> or <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
<a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadows</a> a global binding. In this case, the global
binding will not be visible in the region of the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> where it
is shadowed by the other binding.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13105" id="d5e13105"/>Example: Local Variable Shadowing a Global Variable</div><p>The following is allowed:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:param name="x" select="1"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="foo"&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="2"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>It is also not an error if a binding established by a local <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>
element <a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadows</a>
a binding established by another local <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>
or <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13126" id="d5e13126"/>Example: Misuse of Variable Shadowing</div><p>The following is not an error, but
the effect is probably not what was intended. The template outputs
<code>&lt;x value="1"/&gt;</code>, because the declaration of the inner
variable named <code>$x</code> has no effect on the value of the outer
variable named <code>$x</code>.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="1"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="foo"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="1 to 5"&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="$x+1"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;x value="{$x}"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Once a variable has been given a value, the value cannot subsequently
be changed. XSLT does not provide an equivalent to the
assignment operator available in many procedural programming languages.
</p><p>This is because an assignment operator
would make it harder to create an implementation that
processes a document other than in a batch-like way, starting at the
beginning and continuing through to the end.</p></div><p>As well as global variables and local variables, an XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> may also declare range variables
for use locally within an expression. For details, see <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>Where a reference to a variable occurs in an XPath expression, it is resolved first by reference
to range variables that are in scope, then by reference to local variables and parameters, and finally by reference
to global variables and parameters. A range variable may shadow a local variable or a global variable.
XPath also allows a range variable to shadow another range variable.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="circularity" id="circularity"/>9.8 Circular Definitions</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-circularity" id="dt-circularity" title="circularity"/>A <b>circularity</b> is said to exist
if a construct such as a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>, an
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>, or a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>
is defined in terms of itself. For example, if the
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> or <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
specifying the value of a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>
<var>X</var> references a
global variable <var>Y</var>, then the value for <var>Y</var>
<span class="verb">must</span>
be computed before the value of <var>X</var>. A circularity exists if it
is impossible to do this for all global variable definitions.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13202" id="d5e13202"/>Example: Circular Variable Definitions</div><p>The following two declarations create a circularity:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="$y+1"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="y" select="$x+1"/&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13209" id="d5e13209"/>Example: Circularity involving Variables and Functions</div><p>The definition of a global variable can be circular even if no other variable is involved.
For example the following two declarations (see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a> for
an explanation of the <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element) also create a circularity:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="my:f()"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:function name="my:f"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="$x"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;
</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13221" id="d5e13221"/>Example: Circularity involving Variables and Templates</div><p>The definition of a variable is also circular if the evaluation of the
variable invokes an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction and the variable is
referenced in the pattern used in the <code>match</code> attribute of any template rule
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>. For example the following definition is circular:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="//param[1]"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="param[$x]"&gt;1&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13237" id="d5e13237"/>Example: Circularity involving Variables and Keys</div><p>Similarly, a variable definition is circular if it causes a call on the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a>
function, and the definition of that <a title="" href="#key">key</a> refers to that variable in its
<code>match</code> or <code>use</code> attributes. So the following definition is circular:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="my:f(10)"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:function name="my:f"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="arg1"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="key('k', $arg1)"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;
&lt;xsl:key name="k" match="item[@code=$x]" use="@desc"/&gt;
</pre></div></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0640"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0640] </span></a>In general, a <a title="circularity" href="#dt-circularity">circularity</a>
in a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>.
However, as with all other dynamic errors, an implementation will signal
the error only if it actually executes the instructions and expressions that
participate in the circularity.
Because different implementations may optimize the execution of a stylesheet
in different ways, it is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>
whether a particular circularity will actually be signaled.</p><p>For example, in the following declarations, the function declares a
local variable <code>$b</code>, but it returns a result that does
not require the variable to be evaluated. It is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>
whether the value is actually evaluated, and it is therefore
implementation-dependent whether the circularity is signaled as an error:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="x" select="my:f(1)/&gt;
&lt;xsl:function name="my:f"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="a"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="b" select="$x"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="$a + 2"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;
</pre></div><p>Circularities usually involve global variables or parameters, but they
can also exist between <a title="" href="#key">key</a> definitions (see <a href="#key"><i>16.3 Keys</i></a>), between
named <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute sets</a> (see <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>),
or between
any combination of these constructs. For example, a circularity exists if a
key definition invokes a function that references an attribute set that calls the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a>
function, supplying the name of the original key definition as an argument.</p><p>Circularity is not the same as recursion. Stylesheet functions
(see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>)
and named templates (see <a href="#named-templates"><i>10.1 Named Templates</i></a>) may
call other functions and named templates without restriction. With careless coding,
recursion may be non-terminating. Implementations are <span class="verb">required</span>
to signal circularity as a <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a>,
but they are not <span class="verb">required</span> to detect non-terminating recursion.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="callable-components" id="callable-components"/>10 Callable Components</h2><p>This section describes three constructs that can be used
to provide subroutine-like functionality that can be invoked from anywhere in
the stylesheet: named templates (see <a href="#named-templates"><i>10.1 Named Templates</i></a>), named attribute
sets (see <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>) and
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
(see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>).</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="named-templates" id="named-templates"/>10.1 Named Templates</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-call-template"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:call-template<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;</code></p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-named-template" id="dt-named-template" title="named template"/>Templates can be invoked by name.
An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
element with a <code>name</code> attribute defines a <b>named template</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>. If an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element has
a <code>name</code> attribute, it may, but need not, also have a
<code>match</code> attribute. An <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
instruction invokes a template by name; it has a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute that identifies the template to be
invoked. Unlike <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, the
<a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction does not change
the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>.</p><p>The <code>match</code>, <code>mode</code> and <code>priority</code> attributes on an
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element have no effect when
the <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a>
is invoked by an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction. Similarly,
the <code>name</code> attribute on an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
element has no effect when the template is invoked by an
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0650"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0650] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction whose <code>name</code> attribute does
not match the <code>name</code> attribute of any <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0660"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0660] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains more than one <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a> with
the same name and the same <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>, unless it also contains a <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a>
with the same name and higher <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>.
</p><p>The target <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a> for an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
instruction is the template whose <code>name</code> attribute matches the
<code>name</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
instruction and that has higher <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>
than any other template with this name. The result of evaluating an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
instruction is the sequence
produced by evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
contained in its target <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a>
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>).</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="with-param" id="with-param"/>10.1.1 Passing Parameters to Templates</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-with-param"/><code>&lt;xsl:with-param<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  tunnel? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;</code></p><p>Parameters are passed to templates using the
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element. The <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code>
attribute specifies the name of the <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a> (the variable the value
of whose binding is to be replaced). The value of the
<code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> is allowed
within <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
and <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0670"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0670] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a single <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
element contains two or more <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> elements
with matching <code>name</code> attributes.
</p><p>The value of the parameter is
specified in the same way as for <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and
<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> (see <a href="#variable-values"><i>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</i></a>),
taking account of the values of the <code>select</code> and <code>as</code> attributes and
the content of the <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element, if any.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is possible to have an <code>as</code> attribute on the
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element that differs from the <code>as</code> attribute
on the corresponding <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element describing the formal parameters
of the called template.</p><p>In this situation, the supplied value of the parameter will first be
processed according to the rules of the <code>as</code> attribute on the
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element, and the resulting value will then be further
processed according to the rules of the <code>as</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
element.</p><p>For example, suppose the supplied value is a node with <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, and the <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element specifies
<code>as="xs:integer"</code>, while the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element specifies <code>as="xs:double"</code>.
Then the node will first be atomized and the resulting untyped atomic
value will be cast to <code>xs:integer</code>. If this succeeds, the <code>xs:integer</code> will
then be promoted to an <code>xs:double</code>.</p></div><p>The <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> used
for computing the value specified by the <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>
element is the same as that used for the
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
<a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>, or <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>
element within which it occurs.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0680"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0680] </span></a>In the case of <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
to pass a non-tunnel parameter named <var>x</var> to a template that does not have a
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a> named
<var>x</var>, unless <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards
compatible behavior</a> is enabled for the <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction. This is
not an error in the case of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
and <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>; in these cases
the parameter is simply ignored.</p><p>The optional <code>tunnel</code> attribute may be used
to indicate that a parameter is a <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a>.
The default is <code>no</code>.
Tunnel parameters are described in <a href="#tunnel-params"><i>10.1.2 Tunnel Parameters</i></a>
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0690"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0690] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a template that is invoked using <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> declares a
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
specifying <code>required="yes"</code> and not specifying
<code>tunnel="yes"</code>, if no value for
this parameter is supplied by the calling instruction.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0700"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0700] </span></a>In other
cases,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the template that is invoked declares a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
with <code>required="yes"</code> and no value for
this parameter is supplied by the calling instruction.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13796" id="d5e13796"/>Example: A Named Template</div><p>This example defines a named template for a
<code>numbered-block</code> with an argument to control the format of
the number.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template name="numbered-block"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="format"&gt;1. &lt;/xsl:param&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
&lt;xsl:number format="{$format}"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="ol//ol/li"&gt;
&lt;xsl:call-template name="numbered-block"&gt;
&lt;xsl:with-param name="format"&gt;a. &lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;
&lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Arguments to
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a> are supplied as part of an XPath
function call: see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>
</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="tunnel-params" id="tunnel-params"/>10.1.2 Tunnel Parameters</h4><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-tunnel-parameter" id="dt-tunnel-parameter" title="tunnel parameter"/>A parameter passed to a template may be
defined as a <b>tunnel parameter</b>. Tunnel parameters have the property that they are automatically
passed on by the called template to any further templates that it calls, and so on recursively.<span class="definition">]</span>
Tunnel parameters thus allow values to be set that are accessible during an entire phase of stylesheet processing,
without the need for each template that is used during that phase to be aware of the parameter.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Tunnel parameters are conceptually similar to dynamically-scoped variables in some functional
programming languages.</p></div><p>A <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a> is created by using
an <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> element that specifies
<code>tunnel="yes"</code>. A template that requires access to the value of a tunnel parameter must declare
it using an <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element that also specifies <code>tunnel="yes"</code>.</p><p>On any template call using an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction, a set of
<a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a>
is passed from the calling template to the called template. This set consists of any parameters explicitly
created using <code>&lt;xsl:with-param tunnel="yes"&gt;</code>, overlaid on a base set of tunnel parameters.
If the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction has an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
declaration as an ancestor element in the stylesheet, then the base set consists of the tunnel parameters that were
passed to that template; otherwise (for example, if the instruction is within a global variable declaration, an
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a> declaration, or a
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>), the base set is empty.
If a parameter created using <code>&lt;xsl:with-param tunnel="yes"&gt;</code> has the same
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> as a parameter in the base set,
then the parameter created using <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> overrides the parameter in the base set;
otherwise, the parameter created using <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> is added to the base set.</p><p>When a template accesses the value of a <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a>
by declaring it with <code>xsl:param tunnel="yes"</code>,
this does not remove the parameter from the base set of tunnel parameters that is passed on to any templates called
by this template.</p><p>Two sibling <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> elements must have distinct parameter names, even if one
is a <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a>
and the other is not. Equally, two sibling <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements representing
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>
must have distinct parameter names, even if one
is a <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a>
and the other is not. However, the tunnel parameters that are implicitly passed in
a template call may have names that duplicate the names of non-tunnel parameters that are explicitly passed
on the same call.</p><p>
<a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">Tunnel parameters</a> are not passed in calls to
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>.</p><p>All other options of <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> are available
with <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a> just as with non-tunnel parameters.
For example, parameters may be declared as mandatory
or optional, a default value may be specified, and a required type may be specified. If any conversion is
required from the supplied value of a tunnel parameter to the required type specified in <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>,
then the converted value is used within the receiving template, but the value that is passed on in any further template
calls is the original supplied value before conversion. Equally, any default value is local to the template: specifying
a default value for a tunnel parameter does not change the set of tunnel parameters that is passed on in further
template calls.</p><p>The set of <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a> that is passed to the
<a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a> is empty.</p><p>
<a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">Tunnel parameters</a> are passed unchanged through a
built-in template rule (see <a href="#built-in-rule"><i>6.6 Built-in Template Rules</i></a>).</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e13963" id="d5e13963"/>Example: Using Tunnel Parameters</div><p>Suppose that the equations in a scientific paper are to be sequentially numbered, but that the
format of the number depends on the context in which the equations appear. It is possible to reflect
this using a rule of the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="equation"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="equation-format" select="'(1)'" tunnel="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:number level="any" format="{$equation-format}"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>At any level of processing above this level, it is possible to determine how the equations will
be numbered, for example:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="appendix"&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:apply-templates&gt;
&lt;xsl:with-param name="equation-format" select="'[i]'" tunnel="yes"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The parameter value is passed transparently through all the intermediate layers of template rules until it
reaches the rule with <code>match="equation"</code>. The effect is similar to using a global variable, except
that the parameter can take different values during different phases of the transformation.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="attribute-sets" id="attribute-sets"/>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-attribute-set"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:attribute-set<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-attribute">xsl:attribute</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:attribute-set&gt;</code></p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-attribute-set" id="dt-attribute-set" title="attribute set"/>The
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element defines a named <b>attribute set</b>: that is,
a collection of attribute definitions
that can be used repeatedly on different constructed elements.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute specifies the name of the
attribute set. The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>. The content of the <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a>
element consists of zero or more <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instructions
that are evaluated to produce the attributes in the set.</p><p>The result of evaluating an attribute set is a sequence of attribute nodes. Evaluating
the same attribute set more than once can produce different results, because although an attribute
set does not have parameters, it may contain expressions or instructions whose value depends on the
evaluation context.</p><p>
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">Attribute sets</a> are used by specifying a
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> or
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction,
or by specifying an <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code>
attribute on a literal result element. An attribute set may be defined in terms
of other attribute sets by using the
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element itself.
The value of the <code>[xsl:]use-attribute-sets</code>
attribute is in each case a whitespace-separated
list of names of attribute sets. Each name is specified as a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
which is expanded as described in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>Specifying a
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute is broadly equivalent to adding
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instructions for each of the attributes in each
of the named attribute sets to the beginning of the content of the
instruction with the <code>[xsl:]use-attribute-sets</code> attribute, in the
same order in which the names of the attribute sets are specified in
the <code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute.</p><p>More formally, an <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute is expanded using the
following recursive algorithm, or any algorithm that produces the same results:</p><ul><li><p>The value of the attribute is tokenized as a list of QNames.</p></li><li><p>Each QName in the list is processed, in order, as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The QName must match the <code>name</code> attribute of one or more <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a>
declarations in the stylesheet.</p></li><li><p>Each <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declaration whose name matches is
processed as follows. Where two such declarations have different <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>, the one with lower import precedence is processed first. Where two declarations have
the same import precedence, they are processed in <a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.</p><ul><li><p>If the <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declaration has a <code>use-attribute-sets</code>
attribute, the attribute is expanded by applying this algorithm recursively.</p></li><li><p>If the <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declaration contains one or more <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>
instructions, these instructions are evaluated (following the rules for evaluating a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>:
see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>) to produce
a sequence of attribute nodes. These attribute nodes are appended to the result sequence.</p></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p>The <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instructions are evaluated using the same
<a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>
as is used for evaluating the element that is the parent of
the <code>[xsl:]use-attribute-sets</code> attribute forming the initial input to the algorithm. However, the static context
for the evaluation depends on the position of the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction in the stylesheet: thus,
only local variables declared within
an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction, and global variables, are visible.</p><p>The set of attribute nodes produced by expanding <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> may
include several attributes with the same name. When
the attributes are added to an element node, only the last of the duplicates
will take effect.</p><p>The way in which each instruction uses the results of expanding the <code>[xsl:]use-attribute-sets</code>
attribute is described in the specification for the relevant instruction: see <a href="#literal-result-element"><i>11.1 Literal Result Elements</i></a>,
<a href="#xsl-element"><i>11.2 Creating Element Nodes Using xsl:element
</i></a>, and <a href="#copying"><i>11.9 Copying Nodes</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0710"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0710] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the value of the
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of an <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, or
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element, or the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>, is not a
whitespace-separated sequence
of <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QNames</a>, or if it contains a QName that does not match the <code>name</code>
attribute of any <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declaration in the stylesheet.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0720"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0720] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if an
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element directly
or indirectly references itself via the names contained in the <code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute.
</p><p>Each attribute node produced by expanding an attribute set has a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> determined by the
rules for the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction that created the attribute node: see
<a href="#annotation-for-constructed-attribute"><i>11.3.1 Setting the Type Annotation for a Constructed Attribute Node</i></a>. These type annotations may be preserved, stripped,
or replaced as determined by the rules for the instruction that creates the element in which the attributes
are used.</p><p>Attribute sets are used as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> and <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instructions have an
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute. The sequence of attribute nodes produced by evaluating
this attribute is prepended to the sequence produced by evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> contained within the
instruction.</p></li><li><p>
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">Literal result elements</a> allow an
<code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute, which is evaluated in the same way
as the <code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> and
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>. The sequence of attribute nodes produced by evaluating
this attribute is prepended to the sequence of attribute nodes produced by evaluating the attributes
of the literal result element, which in turn is prepended to the sequence produced by evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> contained with the
literal result element.</p></li></ul><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e14268" id="d5e14268"/>Example: Using Attribute Sets</div><p>The following example creates a named <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>
<code>title-style</code> and uses it in a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="chapter/heading"&gt;
&lt;fo:block font-stretch="condensed" xsl:use-attribute-sets="title-style"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute-set name="title-style"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-size"&gt;12pt&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-weight"&gt;bold&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:attribute-set&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e14284" id="d5e14284"/>Example: Overriding Attributes in an Attribute Set</div><p>The following example creates a named attribute set
<code>base-style</code> and uses it in a template rule with multiple specifications of the attributes:</p><dl><dt class="label">font-family</dt><dd><p>is specified only in the attribute set</p></dd><dt class="label">font-size</dt><dd><p>is specified in the attribute set, is specified
on the literal result element, and in an
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction</p></dd><dt class="label">font-style</dt><dd><p>is specified in the attribute set, and on
the literal result element</p></dd><dt class="label">font-weight</dt><dd><p>is specified in the attribute set, and in an
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction</p></dd></dl><p>Stylesheet fragment:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:attribute-set name="base-style"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-family"&gt;Univers&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-size"&gt;10pt&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-style"&gt;normal&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-weight"&gt;normal&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:attribute-set&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="o"&gt;
&lt;fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="base-style"
font-size="12pt"
font-style="italic"&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-size"&gt;14pt&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="font-weight"&gt;bold&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>Result:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;fo:block font-family="Univers"
font-size="14pt"
font-style="italic"
font-weight="bold"&gt;
...
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="stylesheet-functions" id="stylesheet-functions"/>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stylesheet-function" id="dt-stylesheet-function" title="stylesheet function"/>An <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
declaration declares the name, parameters, and implementation of a
<b>stylesheet function</b>
that can be called from any XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> within the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-function"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:function<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  override? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> declaration
defines a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> that
can be called from any XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
used in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> (including
an XPath expression used within a predicate in
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>).
The <code>name</code> attribute specifies the name of the
function. The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>An <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> declaration can only
appear as a top-level element in a stylesheet module.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0740"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0740] </span></a>A
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> have a prefixed name,
to remove any risk of a clash with a function in the default function namespace. It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the name has no prefix..</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>To prevent the namespace declaration used for the function name appearing in the
result document, use the <code>exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute
on the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element: see <a href="#lre-namespaces"><i>11.1.3 Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</i></a>.</p><p>The prefix <span class="verb">must not</span> refer to a <a title="reserved namespace" href="#dt-reserved-namespace">reserved namespace</a>:
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTSE0080">ERR XTSE0080</a>]</span>
</p></div><p>The content of the <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
element consists of zero or more <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements
that specify the formal arguments of the function, followed by
a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
that defines the value to be returned by the function.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-arity" id="dt-arity" title="arity"/>The <b>arity</b> of a stylesheet
function is the number of <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements in the function definition.<span class="definition">]</span>
Optional arguments are not allowed.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0760"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0760] </span></a>Because arguments to a stylesheet
function call <span class="verb">must</span> all be specified, the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements within an
<a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element <span class="verb">must not</span> specify a default value: this means they
<span class="verb">must</span> be empty, and <span class="verb">must not</span> have a <code>select</code> attribute.
</p><p>A <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
is included in the <em>in-scope functions</em> of the static
context for all XPath expressions used in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, unless </p><ul><li><p>there is another <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> with the same
name and <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a>, and higher <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, or</p></li><li><p>the <code>override</code> attribute has the value <code>no</code> and there
is already a function with the same name and <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a> in the in-scope functions.</p></li></ul><p>The optional <code>override</code> attribute defines what happens if this function
has the same name and <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a> as a function
provided by the implementer or made available in the static context
using an implementation-defined mechanism. If the <code>override</code> attribute has the value <code>yes</code>,
then this function is used in preference; if it has the value <code>no</code>, then the other function
is used in preference. The default value is <code>yes</code>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Specifying <code>override="yes"</code> ensures interoperable behavior:
the same code will execute with all processors. Specifying <code>override="no"</code> is useful when writing
a fallback implementation of a function that is available with some processors but not others: it
allows the vendor's implementation of the function (or a user's implementation
written as an extension function) to be used in preference to the stylesheet
implementation, which is useful when the extension function
is more efficient.</p><p>The <code>override</code> attribute does <em>not</em> affect the rules for deciding
which of several <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet functions</a>
with the same name and <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a> takes precedence.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0770"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0770] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> for
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to contain two or more functions with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>,
the same <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a>, and the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, unless there is
another function with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
and arity, and a higher import precedence.
</p><p>As defined in XPath, the function that is executed as the
result of a function call is identified by looking in the in-scope
functions of the static context for a function whose
name and <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a> matches the name and number of arguments in
the function call. </p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Functions are not polymorphic. Although the XPath function call mechanism allows two
functions to have the same name and different <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a>,
it does
not allow them to be distinguished by the types of their arguments.</p></div><p>The optional <code>as</code> attribute indicates the
<a title="required type" href="#dt-required-type">required type</a> of the result of the function.
The value of the <code>as</code> attribute is a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-SequenceType">SequenceType</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, as defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0780"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0780] </span></a>If the <code>as</code> attribute
is specified, then the result evaluated by the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>) is converted to the required type,
using the <a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.
It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if this conversion fails.
If the <code>as</code> attribute is omitted, the calculated result is used
as supplied, and no conversion takes place.</p><p>If a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> has been
defined with a particular <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>, then a call
on <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> will return true when called with
an argument that is a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> that expands to this
same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements define the formal arguments to the
function. These are interpreted positionally. When the function is called
using a function-call in an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, the first argument supplied is
assigned to the first <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element, the second argument
supplied is assigned to the second <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element, and so on.</p><p>The <code>as</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element defines the
required type of the parameter. The rules for converting the values of the actual arguments
supplied in the function call to the types required by each <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element
are defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
The rules that apply are those for the case where
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a>
is set to <code>false</code>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0790"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0790] </span></a>If the value
of a parameter to a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
cannot be converted to the required type,
a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> is signaled.
</p><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute is omitted,
no conversion takes place and any value is accepted.</p><p>Within the body of a stylesheet function, the
<a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a>
is initially undefined; this means that any attempt to reference the context item, context position,
or context size is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>.
[XPDY0002]</p><p>It is not possible within the body of the
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> to access the values of
local variables that were in scope in the place where the function call was written. Global
variables, however, remain available.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e14734" id="d5e14734"/>Example: A Stylesheet Function</div><p>The following example creates a recursive <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
named <code>str:reverse</code> that reverses the words in a supplied sentence,
and then invokes this function from within a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>. </p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:transform
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:str="http://example.com/namespace"
version="2.0"
exclude-result-prefixes="str"&gt;
&lt;xsl:function name="str:reverse" as="xs:string"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="sentence" as="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence
select="if (contains($sentence, ' '))
then concat(str:reverse(substring-after($sentence, ' ')),
' ',
substring-before($sentence, ' '))
else $sentence"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;output&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="str:reverse('DOG BITES MAN')"/&gt;
&lt;/output&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:transform&gt;</pre></div><p>An alternative way of writing the same function is to implement the conditional
logic at the XSLT level, thus:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:function name="str:reverse" as="xs:string"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="sentence" as="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="contains($sentence, ' ')"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="concat(str:reverse(substring-after($sentence, ' ')),
' ',
substring-before($sentence, ' '))"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="$sentence"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e14754" id="d5e14754"/>Example: Declaring the Return Type of a Function</div><p>The following example illustrates the use of the <code>as</code> attribute
in a function definition.
It returns a string containing the representation of its integer argument, expressed
as a roman numeral. For example, the function call <code>num:roman(7)</code> will return
the string <code>"vii"</code>. This example uses the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction,
described in <a href="#number"><i>12 Numbering</i></a>. The <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction returns a text node,
and the <a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>
are invoked to convert this text node to the type declared in the <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
element, namely <code>xs:string</code>. So the text node is
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a> to a string.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:function name="num:roman" as="xs:string"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="value" as="xs:integer"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:number value="$value" format="i"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</pre></div></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="creating-new-nodes" id="creating-new-nodes"/>11 Creating Nodes and Sequences</h2><p>This section describes instructions that directly create new nodes,
or sequences of nodes and atomic values.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="literal-result-element" id="literal-result-element"/>11.1 Literal Result Elements</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-literal-result-element" id="dt-literal-result-element" title="literal result element"/>In
a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, an element in
the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that does not belong to
the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> and
that is not an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> (see <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>) is classified as a
<b>literal result element</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
A literal result element is evaluated to construct a new element node
with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
(that is, the same namespace URI, local name, and namespace prefix).
The result of evaluating a literal result element
is a node sequence containing one element, the newly constructed element node.</p><p>The content
of the element is a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>).
The sequence obtained by evaluating this sequence constructor, after prepending
any attribute nodes produced as described in <a href="#attributes-for-lres"><i>11.1.2 Attribute Nodes for Literal Result Elements</i></a> and namespace nodes
produced as described in <a href="#lre-namespaces"><i>11.1.3 Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</i></a>, is used to construct
the content of the element, following the rules in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>
</p><p>The base URI of the new element is copied from the base URI of the literal
result element in the stylesheet, unless the content of the new element includes an <code>xml:base</code>
attribute, in which case the base URI of the new element is the value of that attribute, resolved (if it is a relative
URI) against the base URI of the literal result element in the stylesheet.
(Note, however, that this is only relevant when creating a parentless
element. When the literal result element is copied
to form a child of an element or document node, the base URI of the new copy is taken from that
of its new parent.)</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="setting-annotation-for-lre" id="setting-annotation-for-lre"/>11.1.1 Setting the Type Annotation for Literal Result Elements</h4><p>The attributes <code>xsl:type</code> and <code>xsl:validation</code> may be used on a
literal result element to invoke validation of
the contents of the element against a type definition or element declaration
in a schema,
and to determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the new element node will carry.
These attributes also affect the type annotation carried by any elements and attributes that have
the new element node as an ancestor.
These two attributes are both optional, and if one is specified then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted.</p><p>The value of the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute, if present, must be
one of the values <code>strict</code>, <code>lax</code>, <code>preserve</code>, or <code>strip</code>.
The value of the <code>xsl:type</code> attribute, if present, must be a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
identifying a type definition that is present in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope
schema components</a> for the stylesheet. Neither attribute may be specified as an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template.</a>
The effect of these attributes is described in
<a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="attributes-for-lres" id="attributes-for-lres"/>11.1.2 Attribute Nodes for Literal Result Elements</h4><p>Attribute nodes for a literal result element may be created by including
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instructions within the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.
Additionally, attribute nodes are created corresponding to the attributes of the literal result element in the stylesheet,
and as a result of expanding the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of the literal result element,
if present.</p><p>The sequence that is used to construct the content of the literal result element (as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>) is the concatenation of the following four sequences, in order:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The sequence of namespace nodes produced as described in <a href="#lre-namespaces"><i>11.1.3 Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>The sequence of attribute nodes produced by expanding the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute
(if present) following the rules given in <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>
</p></li><li><p>The attributes produced by processing the attributes of the literal result element itself, other than
attributes in the <a title="" href="#xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>. The way these are processed is described
below.</p></li><li><p>The sequence produced by evaluating the contained
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, if the element is not empty.</p></li></ol><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The significance of this order is that an attribute produced by an
<code>xsl:attribute</code>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>
instruction
in the content of the literal result element takes precedence over an attribute produced by expanding an attribute
of the literal result element itself, which in turn takes precedence over an attribute produced by expanding
the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute. This is because of the rules in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>, which specify that when two or more attributes in the sequence have
the same name, all but the last of the duplicates are discarded.</p><p>Although the above rules place namespace nodes before attributes,
this is not strictly necessary, because the rules in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>
allow the namespaces and attributes to appear in any
order so long as both come before other kinds of node. The order
of namespace nodes and attribute nodes in the sequence has no effect
on the relative position of the nodes in document order once they
are added to a tree.</p></div><p>Each attribute of the literal result element, other than an attribute in the
<a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>, is processed to produce an
attribute for the element in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p><p>The value of such an attribute is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>: it can therefore contain <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> contained
in curly brackets (<code>{}</code>). The new attribute node
will have the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
(that is, the same namespace URI, local name, and namespace prefix)
as the attribute in the stylesheet tree, and its
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> will be the same as the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the attribute in the stylesheet tree.
The <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> on the attribute will initially be
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, and the <a title="typed value" href="#dt-typed-value">typed value</a>
of the attribute node will be the same
as its <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The eventual <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> of the attribute in the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> depends
on the <code>xsl:validation</code> and <code>xsl:type</code> attributes of the parent literal result element,
and on the instructions used to create its ancestor elements.
If the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute is set to
<code>preserve</code> or <code>strip</code>, the type annotation will be
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, and the <a title="typed value" href="#dt-typed-value">typed value</a>
of the attribute node will be the same
as its <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>.
If the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute is set to
<code>strict</code> or <code>lax</code>, or if the <code>xsl:type</code> attribute
is used, the type annotation on the attribute will be set as
a result of the schema validation process applied to the parent element.
If neither attribute is present, the type annotation on the attribute
will be <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p></div><p>If the name of a constructed attribute is <code>xml:id</code>, the processor must perform
attribute value normalization by effectively applying the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-normalize-space"><code>normalize-space</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function to
the value of the attribute, and the resulting attribute node must be given the
<code>is-id</code> property.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE0795"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE0795] </span></a>It
is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the name of a constructed attribute is <code>xml:space</code> and the value is not
either <code>default</code> or <code>preserve</code>.
The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to construct
the attribute with the value as requested.
. This applies whether
the attribute is constructed using a literal result element, or by using the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instructions.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <code>xml:base</code>,
<code>xml:lang</code>, <code>xml:space</code>,
and <code>xml:id</code>
attributes have two effects in XSLT. They
behave as standard XSLT attributes, which means for example that if they appear on
a literal result element, they will be copied to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> in the same
way as any other attribute. In addition, they have their standard meaning
as defined in the core XML specifications. Thus, an <code>xml:base</code>
attribute in the stylesheet affects the base URI of the element on which it appears,
and an <code>xml:space</code> attribute affects the interpretation of
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text
nodes</a> within that element. One consequence of this is that
it is inadvisable to write these attributes
as attribute value templates: although an XSLT processor
will understand this notation, the XML parser will not. See
also <a href="#namespace-aliasing"><i>11.1.4 Namespace Aliasing</i></a> which describes how to use <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a>
with these attributes.</p><p>The same is true of the schema-defined attributes
<code>xsi:type</code>, <code>xsi:nil</code>,
<code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code>,
and <code>xsi:schemaLocation</code>.
If the stylesheet is processed by a schema processor,
these attributes will be recognized and interpreted by the schema processor, but
in addition the XSLT processor treats them like any other attribute
on a literal result element: that is, their <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
(after expanding <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value templates</a>) is copied to the result
tree in the same way as any other attribute. If the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
is validated, the copied
attributes will again be recognized and interpreted by the schema processor.</p><p>None of these attributes
will be generated in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> unless the stylesheet writes them to the result
tree explicitly, in the same way as any other attribute.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0805"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0805] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an attribute on a literal result element is in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>,
unless it is one of the attributes explicitly defined in this specification.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If there is a need to create attributes in the XSLT namespace,
this can be achieved using <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, or by means of the
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declaration.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="lre-namespaces" id="lre-namespaces"/>11.1.3 Namespace Nodes for Literal Result Elements</h4><p>The created element node will have a copy of the namespace
nodes that were present on the element node in the stylesheet tree
with the exception of any namespace node whose <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>
is designated as an <b>excluded namespace</b>. Special considerations
apply to aliased namespaces: see <a href="#namespace-aliasing"><i>11.1.4 Namespace Aliasing</i></a>
</p><p>The following namespaces are designated as excluded namespaces:</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> URI
(<code>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</code>)</p></li><li><p>A namespace URI declared as an extension namespace
(see <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>A namespace URI designated by using an <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute either on the literal result element itself or
on an ancestor element. The attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be in the XSLT namespace only
if its parent element is <em>not</em> in the XSLT namespace.</p><p>The value of the attribute is either <code>#all</code>,
or a whitespace-separated
list of tokens, each of which is either a namespace prefix
or <code>#default</code>. The namespace bound to each of the
prefixes is designated as an excluded namespace.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0808"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0808] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a namespace prefix
is used within the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute and there
is no namespace binding in scope for that prefix.
</p><p>The default namespace
of the parent element of the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#ElementNode">Section
6.2 Element Nodes</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>)
may be designated as an
excluded namespace by including <code>#default</code> in the list of
namespace prefixes.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0809"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0809] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the value <code>#default</code>
is used within the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute and
the parent element of the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute has no default namespace.
</p><p>The value <code>#all</code> indicates that all namespaces
that are in scope for the stylesheet element that is the
parent of the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute
are designated as excluded namespaces.</p><p>The designation of a namespace as an excluded
namespace is effective within the subtree of the stylesheet module rooted at
the element bearing the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute;
a subtree rooted at an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element
does not include any stylesheet modules imported or included by children
of that <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element.</p></li></ul><p>The excluded namespaces, as described above, <em>only</em> affect namespace
nodes copied from the stylesheet when processing a literal result element.
There is no guarantee that an excluded namespace will not appear on the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
for some other reason. Namespace nodes are also written to the result tree
as part of the process of namespace fixup (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>),
or as the result of instructions such as
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> and <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When a stylesheet uses a namespace declaration only for the
purposes of addressing a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>, specifying the prefix in the
<code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute will avoid superfluous
namespace declarations in the serialized <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. The attribute is also useful
to prevent namespaces used solely for the naming of stylesheet functions or extension functions from
appearing in the serialized result tree.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e15313" id="d5e15313"/>Example: Excluding Namespaces from the Result Tree</div><p>For example, consider the following stylesheet:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet xsl:version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:a="a.uri"
xmlns:b="b.uri"&gt;
exclude-result-prefixes="#all"&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;foo xmlns:c="c.uri" xmlns:d="d.uri" xmlns:a2="a.uri"
xsl:exclude-result-prefixes="c"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div><p>The result of this stylesheet will be:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;foo xmlns:d="d.uri"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The namespaces <code>a.uri</code> and <code>b.uri</code> are excluded by virtue of the
<code>exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element, and
the namespace <code>c.uri</code> is excluded by virtue of the <code>xsl:exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute on the <code>foo</code> element. The setting <code>#all</code> does not affect the namespace
<code>d.uri</code> because <code>d.uri</code> is not an in-scope namespace for the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element. The element in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> does not have a namespace node corresponding to <code>xmlns:a2="a.uri"</code>
because the effect of <code>exclude-result-prefixes</code> is to designate the namespace URI <code>a.uri</code>
as an excluded namespace, irrespective of how many prefixes are bound to this namespace URI.</p><p>If the stylesheet is changed so that the literal result element has an attribute <code>b:bar="3"</code>,
then the element in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> will typically have
a namespace declaration <code>xmlns:b="b.uri"</code>
(the processor may choose a different namespace prefix
if this is necessary to avoid conflicts). The
<code>exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute makes <code>b.uri</code> an excluded namespace, so
the namespace node is not automatically copied from the stylesheet, but the
presence of an attribute whose name is in the namespace <code>b.uri</code> forces the namespace fixup process
(see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>) to introduce a namespace node for this namespace.</p></div><p>A literal result element may have an optional <code>xsl:inherit-namespaces</code>
attribute, with the value <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>. The default value is <code>yes</code>.
If the value is set to <code>yes</code>, or
is omitted, then the namespace nodes created for the newly constructed element are copied
to the children and descendants of the newly constructed element, as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>. If the value is set to <code>no</code>, then these
namespace nodes are not automatically copied to the children. This may result in namespace
undeclarations (such as <code>xmlns=""</code> or, in the case of XML 1.1, <code>xmlns:p=""</code>)
appearing on the child elements when a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
is serialized.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="namespace-aliasing" id="namespace-aliasing"/>11.1.4 Namespace Aliasing</h4><p>When a stylesheet is used to define a transformation
whose output is itself a stylesheet module, or in certain other cases where
the result document uses namespaces that it would be inconvenient to use
in the stylesheet, namespace aliasing can be used to declare a mapping
between a namespace URI used in the stylesheet and the corresponding
namespace URI to be used in the result document.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-literal-namespace-uri" id="dt-literal-namespace-uri" title="literal namespace URI"/>A
namespace URI in the stylesheet tree that is being used to
specify a namespace URI in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
is called a <b>literal namespace URI</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-target-namespace-uri" id="dt-target-namespace-uri" title="target namespace URI"/>The
namespace URI that is to be used in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
as a substitute for a <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> is called the
<b>target namespace URI</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Either of the <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a>
or the <a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a> can be <em>null</em>: this is treated
as a reference to the set of names that are in no namespace.</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-namespace-alias"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:namespace-alias<br/>  <b>stylesheet-prefix</b> = <var>prefix</var> | "#default"<br/>  <b>result-prefix</b> = <var>prefix</var> | "#default" /&gt;</code></p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-alias" id="dt-alias" title="alias"/>A stylesheet can use the
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> element to declare that a
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> is being used as an
<b>alias</b> for a
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The effect is that when names in the namespace identified by the
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a> are copied to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>,
the namespace URI in the result tree will be the
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>,
instead of the literal namespace URI. This applies to:</p><ul><li><p>the namespace URI in the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of a literal
result element in the stylesheet</p></li><li><p>the namespace URI in the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of an attribute
specified on a literal result element in the stylesheet</p></li></ul><p>Where namespace aliasing changes the namespace URI part of the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> containing the name
of an element or attribute node, the namespace prefix in that expanded-QName is replaced by
the prefix indicated by the <code>result-prefix</code> attribute of the
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declaration.</p><p>The <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a>
element declares that the namespace URI bound to the prefix specified
by the <code>stylesheet-prefix</code> is the
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a>, and the namespace URI bound to the prefix specified by the
<code>result-prefix</code> attribute is the
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>.
Thus, the
<code>stylesheet-prefix</code> attribute specifies the namespace URI
that will appear in the stylesheet, and the
<code>result-prefix</code> attribute specifies the corresponding
namespace URI that will appear in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.
</p><p>The default namespace (as declared by <code>xmlns</code>) may be specified by
using <code>#default</code> instead of a prefix. If no default
namespace is in force, specifying <code>#default</code> denotes the null namespace URI.
This allows elements that are in no namespace in the stylesheet to acquire a namespace in the result
document, or vice versa.</p><p>If a <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a>
is declared to be an alias for multiple different
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">target namespace URIs</a>, then
the declaration with the highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> is used.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0810"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0810] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if there is more
than one such declaration
with the same <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a> and the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>
and different values for the <a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>,
unless there is also an <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declaration
with the same <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a> and a higher import precedence.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0812"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0812] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a value other than <code>#default</code>
is specified for either the <code>stylesheet-prefix</code> or the <code>result-prefix</code>
attributes of the <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> element when there is no in-scope binding
for that namespace prefix.
</p><p>When a literal result element is processed, its namespace nodes are handled as follows:</p><ul><li><p>A namespace node whose string value is a
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a>
is not copied to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p></li><li><p>A namespace node whose string value is a
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>
is copied to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>,
whether or not the URI identifies an excluded namespace.</p></li></ul><p>In the event that the same URI is used as a
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> and a
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>, the second
of these rules takes precedence.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>These rules achieve the effect that the element generated
from the literal result element will have an in-scope namespace node that binds the
<code>result-prefix</code> to the <a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>,
provided that the namespace declaration associating this prefix with this URI is in scope for
both the <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> instruction and for the literal result element.
Conversely, the <code>stylesheet-prefix</code> and the
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> will not normally appear
in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e15686" id="d5e15686"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:namespace-alias</code> to Generate a Stylesheet</div><p>When literal result elements are being used to create element,
attribute, or namespace nodes that use
the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> URI, the
stylesheet may use an alias. </p><p>For example, the stylesheet</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:axsl="file://namespace.alias"&gt;
&lt;xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="axsl" result-prefix="xsl"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;axsl:stylesheet version="2.0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/axsl:stylesheet&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="elements"&gt;
&lt;axsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;axsl:comment select="system-property('xsl:version')"/&gt;
&lt;axsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/axsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="block"&gt;
&lt;axsl:template match="{.}"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;axsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/axsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div><p>will generate an XSLT stylesheet from a document of the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;elements&gt;
&lt;block&gt;p&lt;/block&gt;
&lt;block&gt;h1&lt;/block&gt;
&lt;block&gt;h2&lt;/block&gt;
&lt;block&gt;h3&lt;/block&gt;
&lt;block&gt;h4&lt;/block&gt;
&lt;/elements&gt;</pre></div><p>The output of the transformation will be a stylesheet such as the following.
Whitespace has been added for clarity. Note that an implementation may output different namespace prefixes
from those appearing in this example; however, the rules guarantee that there
will be a namespace node that binds the prefix <code>xsl</code> to the URI <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</code>,
which makes it safe to use the QName <code>xsl:version</code> in the content of the generated stylesheet.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:comment select="system-property('xsl:version')"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="p"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="h1"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="h2"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="h3"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="h4"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It may be necessary also to use aliases for namespaces other
than the XSLT namespace URI. For example, it can be useful to
define an alias for the namespace <code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</code>,
so that the stylesheet can use the attributes <code>xsi:type</code>,
<code>xsi:nil</code>, and <code>xsi:schemaLocation</code> on a literal result element, without
running the risk that a schema processor will interpret these as applying to the stylesheet itself.
Equally, literal result elements
belonging to a namespace dealing with digital signatures might cause
XSLT stylesheets to be mishandled by general-purpose security
software; using an alias for the namespace would avoid the possibility
of such mishandling.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e15733" id="d5e15733"/>Example: Aliasing the XML Namespace</div><p>It is possible to define an alias for the XML
namespace.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:axml="http://www.example.com/alias-xml"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="axml" result-prefix="xml"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;name axml:space="preserve"&gt;
&lt;first&gt;James&lt;/first&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt; &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;last&gt;Clark&lt;/last&gt;
&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div><p>produces the output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;name xml:space="preserve"&gt;&lt;first&gt;James&lt;/first&gt; &lt;last&gt;Clark&lt;/last&gt;&lt;/name&gt;</pre></div><p>This allows an <code>xml:space</code> attribute to be generated in the output without
affecting the way the stylesheet is parsed. The same technique can be used for other attributes
such as <code>xml:lang</code>,
<code>xml:base</code>, and <code>xml:id</code>.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Namespace aliasing is only necessary when literal result elements are used. The problem of
reserved namespaces does not arise when using <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> and <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>
to construct the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. Therefore, as an alternative to using <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a>,
it is always possible to achieve the desired effect by replacing literal result elements with
<a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> and <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instructions.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xsl-element" id="xsl-element"/>11.2 Creating Element Nodes Using <code>xsl:element</code>
</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-element"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:element<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  namespace? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  inherit-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:element&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction allows an element to be
created with a computed name. The <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the
element to be created is specified by a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code>
attribute and an optional <code>namespace</code> attribute.</p><p>The content of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> for the
children, attributes, and namespaces of the created element.
The sequence obtained by evaluating this sequence constructor
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>) is used to construct
the content of the element, as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> element may have a
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute, whose value is a whitespace-separated list of QNames that identify
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declarations. If this attribute is present, it is expanded as
described in <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a> to produce a sequence of attribute nodes. This sequence is
prepended to the sequence produced as a result of evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.</p><p>The result of evaluating the
<a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction, except in error cases, is
the newly constructed element node.</p><p>The <code>name</code> attribute is interpreted as an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>,
whose <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0820"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0820] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is not a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0830"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0830] </span></a>In the
case of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction
with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
whose prefix is not declared in an in-scope namespace declaration for the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>
instruction.
</p><p>If the <code>namespace</code> attribute is
not present then the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> is
expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> using the namespace declarations in
effect for the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> element, including any default
namespace declaration.</p><p>If the <code>namespace</code> attribute is present, then it too is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>. The <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be in the lexical space
of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> type. If
the string is zero-length, then the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the element has a null
namespace URI. Otherwise, the string is used as the namespace URI of
the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the element to be created. The local part of the
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> specified by the
<code>name</code> attribute is used as the local part of the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the element to be created.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0835"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0835] </span></a>
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>namespace</code> attribute
is not in the lexical space of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></span>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The XDM data model requires the name of a node to be an instance of <code>xs:QName</code>,
and XML Schema defines the namespace part of an <code>xs:QName</code> to be an instance of <code>xs:anyURI</code>.
However, the schema specification, and the specifications that it refers to,
give implementations some flexibility in how strictly they enforce these constraints.</p></div><p>The prefix of the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>
specified in the
<code>name</code> attribute (or the absence of a prefix) is copied to the prefix part of the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
representing the name of the new element node.
In the event of a conflict a prefix
may subsequently be added, changed, or removed
during the namespace fixup process (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>).
<span> The term <em>conflict</em> here
means any violation of the constraints defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, for example the
use of the same prefix to refer to two different namespaces in the element and
in one of its attributes, the use of the prefix <code>xml</code> to refer to a namespace
other than the XML namespace, or any use of the prefix <code>xmlns</code>.</span>
</p><p>The <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction has an optional <code>inherit-namespaces</code>
attribute, with the value <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>. The default value is <code>yes</code>.
If the value is set to <code>yes</code>, or
is omitted, then the namespace nodes created for the newly constructed element (whether these were
copied from those of the source node, or generated as a result of namespace fixup) are copied
to the children and descendants of the newly constructed element, as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>. If the value is set to <code>no</code>, then these
namespace nodes are not automatically copied to the children. This may result in namespace
undeclarations (such as <code>xmlns=""</code> or, in the case of XML Namespaces 1.1, <code>xmlns:p=""</code>)
appearing on the child elements when a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is serialized.</p><p>The base URI of the new element is copied from the base URI of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>
instruction in the stylesheet, unless the content of the new element includes an <code>xml:base</code>
attribute, in which case the base URI of the new element is the value of that attribute, resolved (if it is a relative
URI) against the base URI of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction in the stylesheet.
(Note, however, that this is only relevant when creating parentless elements.
When the new element is copied
to form a child of an element or document node, the base URI of the new copy is taken from that
of its new parent.)</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="annotation-for-constructed-element" id="annotation-for-constructed-element"/>11.2.1 Setting the Type Annotation for a Constructed Element Node</h4><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code> and
<code>validation</code> may be used on the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>
instruction to invoke validation of
the contents of the element against a type definition or element declaration
in a schema,
and to determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the new element node will carry.
These attributes also affect the type annotation carried by any elements and attributes that have
the new element node as an ancestor.
These two attributes are both optional, and if one is specified then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted.
The permitted values of these attributes and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The final type annotation of the element in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
also depends on the
<code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> attributes of the instructions used to create the ancestors
of the element.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-attributes" id="creating-attributes"/>11.3 Creating Attribute Nodes Using <code>xsl:attribute</code>
</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-attribute"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:attribute<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  namespace? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  separator? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> element can be used to add
attributes to result elements whether created by literal result
elements in the stylesheet or by instructions such as
<a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> or <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>.
The <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the
attribute to be created is specified by a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code>
attribute and an optional <code>namespace</code> attribute.
Except in error cases,
the result of evaluating an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction
is the newly constructed attribute node.</p><p>The string value of the new attribute node may be defined either by using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or by the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that forms the
content of the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> element. These are mutually exclusive. If neither is present,
the value of the new attribute node will be a zero-length string. The way in which the
value is constructed is specified in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0840"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0840] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.
</p><p>If the <code>separator</code> attribute is present,
then the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
this attribute is used to separate adjacent items in the result sequence, as described in
<a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>. In the absence of this attribute, the default
separator is a single space (#x20) when the content is specified using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or a zero-length string when the content is specified using a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>The <code>name</code> attribute is interpreted as
an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>,
whose <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0850"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0850] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute
is not a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0855"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0855] </span></a>In the case
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is the string <code>xmlns</code>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0860"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0860] </span></a>In the case
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction
with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>
whose prefix is not declared in an in-scope namespace declaration for the
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction.
</p><p>If the <code>namespace</code> attribute is not
present, then the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> is
expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> using the namespace declarations in
effect for the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> element, <em>not</em>
including any default namespace declaration.</p><p>If the <code>namespace</code> attribute is present, then it too is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>. The <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be in the lexical space
of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> type. If the string is zero-length, then the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the attribute has a null namespace URI. Otherwise,
the string is used as the namespace URI of the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the
attribute to be created. The local part of the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> specified by the
<code>name</code> attribute is used as the local part of the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the attribute to be created.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0865"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0865] </span></a>
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>namespace</code> attribute
is not in the lexical space of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></span>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The same considerations apply as for elements:
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE0835">ERR XTDE0835</a>]</span>
in <a href="#xsl-element"><i>11.2 Creating Element Nodes Using xsl:element
</i></a>.</p></div><p>The prefix of the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> specified in the
<code>name</code> attribute (or the absence of a prefix) is copied to the prefix part of the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
representing the name of the new attribute node.
<span>In the event of a conflict this prefix may subsequently be
added, changed, or removed during the namespace fixup process</span> (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>).
If the attribute is in a non-null namespace and no prefix is specified,
then the namespace fixup process will invent a prefix.
<span> The term <em>conflict</em> here
means any violation of the constraints defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, for example the
use of the same prefix to refer to two different namespaces in the element and
in one of its attributes, the use of the prefix <code>xml</code> to refer to a namespace
other than the XML namespace, or any use of the prefix <code>xmlns</code>.</span></p><p>If the name of a constructed attribute is <code>xml:id</code>,
the processor must perform attribute value normalization
by effectively applying the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-normalize-space"><code>normalize-space</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function to the value
of the attribute, and
the resulting attribute
node must be given the <code>is-id</code> property. This applies whether the attribute is constructed using the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>
instruction or whether it is constructed using an attribute of a literal result element. This does not imply any
constraints on the value of the attribute, or on its uniqueness, and it does not affect the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
of the attribute, unless the containing document is validated.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The effect of setting the <code>is-id</code> property is that the parent element
can be located within the containing document by use of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function.
In effect, XSLT when constructing a document performs some of the functions of
an <code>xml:id</code> processor, as defined in <a href="#xml-id">[xml:id]</a>; the other aspects of
<code>xml:id</code> processing are performed during validation.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e16489" id="d5e16489"/>Example: Creating a List-Valued Attribute</div><p>The following instruction creates the attribute <code>colors="red green blue"</code>:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:attribute name="colors" select="'red', 'green', 'blue'"/&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e16499" id="d5e16499"/>Example: Namespaces are not Attributes</div><p>It is not an error to write:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:attribute name="xmlns:xsl"
namespace="file://some.namespace"&gt;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;</pre></div><p>However, this will not result in the namespace declaration
<code>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"</code> being output. Instead, it will
produce an attribute node with local name <code>xsl</code>, and with a system-allocated namespace
prefix mapped to the namespace URI <code>file://some.namespace</code>. This is because the
namespace fixup process is not allowed to use <code>xmlns</code> as the name of a namespace node.</p></div><p>As described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>,
in a sequence that is used to construct the content of an element,
any attribute nodes <span class="verb">must</span> appear in the sequence
before any element, text, comment, or processing instruction nodes.
Where the sequence contains two
or more attribute nodes with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>, the one that comes last
is the only one that takes effect.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If a collection of attributes is generated repeatedly, this
can be done conveniently by using named attribute sets: see <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a>
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="annotation-for-constructed-attribute" id="annotation-for-constructed-attribute"/>11.3.1 Setting the Type Annotation for a Constructed Attribute Node</h4><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code>
and <code>validation</code> may be used on the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>
instruction to invoke validation of
the contents of the attribute against a type definition or attribute declaration in a schema,
and to determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the new attribute node will carry.
These two attributes are both optional, and if one is specified then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted.
The permitted values of these attributes and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The final <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> of the attribute in the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> also depends on the
<code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> attributes of the instructions used to create the ancestors
of the attribute.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-text-nodes" id="creating-text-nodes"/>11.4 Creating Text Nodes</h3><p>This section describes three different ways of creating text nodes: by means of
literal text nodes in the stylesheet, or by using the <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> and <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
instructions. It is also possible to create text nodes using the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction
described in <a href="#number"><i>12 Numbering</i></a>.</p><p>If and when the sequence that results from
evaluating a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
is used to form the content of a node, as described in
<a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a> and
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>, adjacent text nodes
in the sequence are merged. Within the sequence itself, however, they exist as distinct nodes.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e16599" id="d5e16599"/>Example: A sequence of text nodes</div><p>The following function returns a sequence of three text nodes:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:function name="f:wrap"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="s"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;(&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="$s"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;)&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</pre></div><p>When this function is called as follows:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:value-of select="f:wrap('---')"/&gt;</pre></div><p>the result is:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>(---)</pre></div><p>No additional spaces are inserted, because the calling <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
instruction merges adjacent text nodes before atomizing the sequence. However, the
result of the instruction:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:value-of select="data(f:wrap('---'))"/&gt;</pre></div><p>is:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>( --- )</pre></div><p>because in this case the three text nodes are atomized to form three strings,
and spaces are inserted between adjacent strings.</p></div><p>It is possible to construct text nodes whose string value is zero-length.
A zero-length text node, when atomized, produces a zero-length string.
However, zero-length text nodes are ignored when they appear in a sequence
that is used to form the content of a node, as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a> and <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="literal-text-nodes" id="literal-text-nodes"/>11.4.1 Literal Text Nodes</h4><p>A <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
can contain text nodes. Each text node in a
sequence constructor remaining after
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> have been stripped as specified in
<a href="#stylesheet-stripping"><i>4.2 Stripping Whitespace from the Stylesheet</i></a> will construct a new text node with the same
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>.
The resulting text node is added to the result of the containing sequence constructor.</p><p>Text is processed at the tree level.
Thus, markup of
<code>&amp;lt;</code> in a template will be represented in the
stylesheet tree by a text node that includes the character
<code>&lt;</code>. This will create a text node in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
that contains a <code>&lt;</code> character, which will be represented
by the markup <code>&amp;lt;</code> (or an equivalent character
reference) when the result tree is serialized as an XML document,
unless otherwise specified using <a title="character map" href="#dt-character-map">character maps</a>
(see <a href="#character-maps"><i>20.1 Character Maps</i></a>) or <code>disable-output-escaping</code>
(see <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>).</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="xsl-text" id="xsl-text"/>11.4.2 Creating Text Nodes Using <code>xsl:text</code>
</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-text"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:text<br/>  <span class="grayed">[disable-output-escaping]?</span> = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: #PCDATA --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:text&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> element is evaluated to contruct a
new text node. The content of the
<a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> element is a single text node whose value forms the
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> of
the new text node. An <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> element may
be empty,
in which case the result of evaluating the instruction is a text node whose
string value is the zero-length string.</p><p>The result of evaluating an
<a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction is the newly constructed text node.</p><p>A text node that is an immediate child of an <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction
will not be stripped from the stylesheet tree, even if it consists entirely of whitespace
(see <a href="#strip"><i>4.4 Stripping Whitespace from a Source Tree</i></a>).</p><p>For the effect of the <a title="deprecated" href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a>
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute,
see <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is not always necessary to use the <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction
to write text nodes to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. Literal text can be written to the result tree by including
it anywhere in a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, while
computed text can be output using the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction. The principal reason
for using <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> is that it offers improved control over whitespace handling.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="value-of" id="value-of"/>11.4.3 Generating Text with <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
</h4><p>Within a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction can be
used to generate computed text nodes. The
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction computes the text
using an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> that is specified as the
value of the <code>select</code> attribute, or by means of contained
instructions. This might, for example, extract text from
a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> or insert the value of a variable. </p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-value-of"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:value-of<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  separator? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  <span class="grayed">[disable-output-escaping]?</span> = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction is evaluated to construct a
new text node; the result of the instruction is the newly constructed text node.</p><p>The string value of the new text node may be defined either by using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or by the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>) that forms the
content of the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> element. These are mutually exclusive, and one of them
must be present. The way in which the
value is constructed is specified in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0870"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0870] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> element is present when the
content of the element is non-empty, or if the <code>select</code> attribute is absent when the
content is empty.
</p><p>If the <code>separator</code> attribute is present,
then the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
this attribute is used to separate adjacent items in the result sequence, as described in
<a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>. In the absence of this attribute, the default
separator is a single space (#x20) when the content is specified using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or a zero-length string when the content is specified using a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>Special rules apply when
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a> is enabled for the
instruction. If no <code>separator</code> attribute is present, and if the <code>select</code> attribute
is present, then all items in the <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>
result sequence other than the first are ignored.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e16854" id="d5e16854"/>Example: Generating a List with Separators</div><p>The instruction:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;x&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="1 to 4" separator="|"/&gt;&lt;/x&gt;</pre></div><p>produces the output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;x&gt;1|2|3|4&lt;/x&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> element can be used to copy
a sequence of nodes
to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
without <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomization</a>. See <a href="#copy-of"><i>11.9.2 Deep Copy</i></a>.</p></div><p>For the effect of the <a title="deprecated" href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a>
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute,
see <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>
</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-document-nodes" id="creating-document-nodes"/>11.5 Creating Document Nodes</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-document"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:document<br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:document&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> instruction is used to create a new document node.
The content of the <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> element is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
for the children of the new document node. A document node is created, and
the sequence obtained by evaluating the sequence constructor is used to construct
the content of the document, as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.
The <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a> rooted at this document node forms the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>.</p><p>Except in error situations, the result of evaluating the
<a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> instruction is a single node, the newly constructed document node.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The new document is not serialized. To construct a document that is to form a final result
rather than an intermediate result, use the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction described
in <a href="#creating-result-trees"><i>19.1 Creating Final Result Trees</i></a>.</p></div><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> may
be used on the <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>
instruction to validate the contents of the new document, and to
determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that elements and attributes within the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> will carry.
The permitted values and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validating-document-nodes"><i>19.2.2 Validating Document Nodes</i></a>.</p><p>The base URI of the new document node is taken from the base URI of the <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>
instruction.</p><p>The <code>document-uri</code> and <code>unparsed-entities</code> properties
of the new document node are set to empty.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e16970" id="d5e16970"/>Example: Checking Uniqueness Constraints in a Temporary Tree</div><p>The following example creates a temporary tree held in a variable. The use of an
enclosed <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> instruction ensures that uniqueness constraints defined
in the schema for the relevant elements are checked.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="tree" as="document-node()"&gt;
&lt;xsl:document validation="strict"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:document&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-processing-instructions" id="creating-processing-instructions"/>11.6 Creating Processing Instructions</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-processing-instruction"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:processing-instruction<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>ncname</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:processing-instruction&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element is evaluated
to create a processing instruction node.</p><p>The <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element has a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute that specifies the name of the processing
instruction node. The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>.</p><p>The string value of the new processing-instruction node may be defined either by using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or by the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that forms the
content of the <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element. These are mutually exclusive. If neither is present,
the string value of the new processing-instruction node will be a zero-length string. The way in which the
value is constructed is specified in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0880"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0880] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.
</p><p>Except in error situations, the result of evaluating the
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> instruction is
a single node, the newly constructed processing instruction node.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e17048" id="d5e17048"/>Example: Creating a Processing Instruction</div><p>This instruction:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:processing-instruction name="xml-stylesheet"
select="('href=&amp;quot;book.css&amp;quot;', 'type=&amp;quot;text/css&amp;quot;')"/&gt;</pre></div><p>creates the processing instruction</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;?xml-stylesheet href="book.css" type="text/css"?&gt;</pre></div><p>Note that the <code>xml-stylesheet</code> processing instruction
contains <em>pseudo-attributes</em>
in the form <code>name="value"</code>. Although these have the same textual form
as attributes in an element start tag, they are not represented as XDM
attribute nodes, and cannot therefore be constructed using <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>
instructions.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0890"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0890] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the
<code>name</code> attribute is not both an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup> and a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-PITarget">PITarget</a><sup><small>XML</small></sup>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Because these rules disallow the name <code>xml</code>,
the <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>
cannot be used to output an XML declaration. The
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration should be used to control this instead (see <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>).</p></div><p>If the result of evaluating the content of the
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> contains the string
<code>?&gt;</code>, this string is modified by inserting a space between the
<code>?</code> and <code>&gt;</code> characters.</p><p>The base URI of the new processing-instruction is copied from the base URI of the
<a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element in the stylesheet.
(Note, however, that this is only relevant when creating a parentless
processing instruction. When the new processing instruction is copied
to form a child of an element or document node, the base URI of the new copy is taken from that
of its new parent.)</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-namespace-nodes" id="creating-namespace-nodes"/>11.7 Creating Namespace Nodes</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-namespace"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:namespace<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>ncname</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:namespace&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> element is evaluated
to create a namespace node. Except in error situations, the result of evaluating the
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction is
a single node, the newly constructed namespace node.</p><p>The <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> element has a <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute that specifies the name of the namespace node
(that is, the namespace prefix). The value of the <code>name</code> attribute is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>. If the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a
zero-length string, a namespace node is added for the default namespace.</p><p>The string value of the new namespace node (that is, the namespace URI)
may be defined either by using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or by the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that forms the
content of the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> element. These are mutually exclusive. Since the string value
of a namespace node cannot be a zero-length string, one of them must be present. The way in which the
value is constructed is specified in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0905"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0905] </span></a>It is a non-recoverable dynamic error if the
string value of the new namespace node is not valid in the lexical space of the
data type <code>xs:anyURI</code>,
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code>.</span>
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0910"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0910] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> element is present when the
element has content other than one or more <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>
instructions, or if the <code>select</code> attribute is absent when the element
has empty content.
</p><p>Note the restrictions described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>
for the position of a namespace node relative to other nodes in the node sequence
returned by a sequence constructor.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e17236" id="d5e17236"/>Example: Constructing a QName-Valued Attribute</div><p>This literal result element:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;data xsi:type="xs:integer" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
&lt;xsl:namespace name="xs" select="'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;42&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/data&gt;</pre></div><p>would typically cause the output document to contain the element:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;data xsi:type="xs:integer"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;42&lt;/data&gt;</pre></div><p>In this case, the element is constructed using a literal result element, and the namespace
<code>xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</code> could therefore have been added to the
<a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> simply by declaring it as one of the in-scope namespaces in the stylesheet. In practice, the
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction is more likely to be useful in situations where the element
is constructed using an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction, which does not copy all the
in-scope namespaces from the stylesheet.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0920"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0920] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the
<code>name</code> attribute
is neither a zero-length string nor an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>, or
if it is <code>xmlns</code>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0925"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0925] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>
instruction generates a namespace node whose name is <code>xml</code> and whose string value is
not <code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>, or a namespace node whose string value is
<code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code> and whose name is
not <code>xml</code>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0930"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0930] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute or the contained
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> of an
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction
results in a zero-length string.
</p><p>For details of other error conditions that may arise, see
<a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is rarely necessary to use <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> to create
a namespace node in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>; in most circumstances, the required
namespace nodes will be created automatically, as a side-effect of writing
elements or attributes that use the namespace. An example where
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> is needed is a situation where the required namespace
is used only within attribute values in the result document, not in element or
attribute names; especially where the required namespace prefix or
namespace URI is computed
at run-time and is not present in either the source document or the
stylesheet.</p><p>Adding a namespace node to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> will never change the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of any element or attribute
node in the result tree: that is, it will never change the namespace URI
of an element or attribute.
It might, however, constrain
the choice of prefixes when namespace fixup is performed.</p><p><span>Namespace prefixes for element and attribute names are
initially established by
the rules of the instruction that creates the element or attribute node, and in
the event of conflicts, they may be changed by the namespace fixup process
described in <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>.</span> The fixup process ensures that an element
has in-scope namespace nodes for the namespace URIs used in the element name and in its attribute names, and the
serializer will typically use these namespace nodes to determine the prefix to use in the serialized output. The fixup
process cannot generate namespace nodes
that are inconsistent with those already present in the tree. This means that it is
not possible for the processor to decide the prefix to use for an element or for any of its attributes
until all the namespace nodes for the element have been added.</p><p>If a namespace prefix is mapped to a particular
namespace URI using the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction, or by using <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> to copy a namespace node, this prevents the namespace fixup process (and hence
the serializer) from using the same prefix for a different namespace URI on the same element.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e17376" id="d5e17376"/>Example: Conflicting Namespace Prefixes</div><p>Given the instruction:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:element name="p:item" xmlns:p="http://www.example.com/p"&gt;
&lt;xsl:namespace name="p"&gt;http://www.example.com/q&lt;/xsl:namespace&gt;
&lt;/xsl:element&gt;</pre></div><p>a possible serialization of the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> is:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;ns0:item xmlns:ns0="http://www.example.com/p" xmlns:p="http://www.example.com/q"/&gt;</pre></div><p>The processor must invent a namespace prefix for the URI <code>p.uri</code>; it cannot use the prefix
<code>p</code> because that prefix has been explicitly associated with a different URI.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction cannot be used to generate a
<b>namespace undeclaration</b> of the form <code>xmlns=""</code> (nor the new forms of namespace undeclaration
permitted in <a href="#xml-names11">[Namespaces in XML 1.1]</a>). Namespace undeclarations
are generated automatically by the serializer if <code>undeclare-prefixes="yes"</code>
is specified on <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>, whenever a parent element has a namespace node
for the default namespace prefix, and a child element has no namespace node for that prefix.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-comments" id="creating-comments"/>11.8 Creating Comments</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-comment"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:comment<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:comment&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> element is evaluated to contruct a
new comment node. Except in error cases, the result of evaluating the
<a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> instruction is a single node, the newly constructed comment node.</p><p>The string value of the new comment node may be defined either by using the <code>select</code>
attribute, or by the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that forms the
content of the <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> element. These are mutually exclusive. If neither is present,
the value of the new comment node will be a zero-length string. The way in which the
value is constructed is specified in <a href="#constructing-simple-content"><i>5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0940"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0940] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e17465" id="d5e17465"/>Example: Generating a Comment Node</div><p>For example, this</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:comment&gt;This file is automatically generated. Do not edit!&lt;/xsl:comment&gt;</pre></div><p>would create the comment</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;!--This file is automatically generated. Do not edit!--&gt;</pre></div></div><p>In the generated comment node, the processor
<span class="verb">must</span> insert a space after
any occurrence of <code>-</code> that is followed by another
<code>-</code> or that ends the comment.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="copying" id="copying"/>11.9 Copying Nodes</h3><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="shallow-copy" id="shallow-copy"/>11.9.1 Shallow Copy</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-copy"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:copy<br/>  copy-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  inherit-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:copy&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction provides a way of copying
the context item. If the
<a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is a node,
evaluating the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction
constructs a copy of the context node, and the result of the
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction is this newly constructed node.
By default, the namespace nodes of the
context node are automatically copied as well, but the attributes and
children of the node are not automatically copied.</p><p>When the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is an atomic value, the
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction returns this value.
The <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, if
present, is not evaluated.</p><p>When the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
is an attribute node, text node, comment node,
processing instruction node, or namespace node, the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction
returns a new node that is a copy of the context node. The new node will have the same
node kind, name, and string value as the context node. In the case of
an attribute node, it will also have the same values for the <code>is-id</code> and <code>is-idrefs</code>
properties.
The <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, if
present, is not evaluated.</p><p>When the context item is a document node or element node,
the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction
returns a new node that has the same node kind and name as the context node.
The content of the new node is formed by evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
contained in the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction.
The sequence obtained by evaluating this sequence constructor is used (after prepending
any attribute nodes or namespace nodes as described in the following paragraphs) to construct
the content of the document or element node, as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e17568" id="d5e17568"/>Example: Identity Transformation</div><p>The identity transformation can be written using
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> as follows:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="@*|node()"&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:copy&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>This template rule can be used to copy any node in a tree by applying template rules to its
attributes and children. It can be combined with additional template rules that modify selected
nodes, for example if all nodes are to be copied except <code>note</code> elements and their
contents, this can be achieved by using the identity template rule together with the template rule:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="note"/&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction is most useful when copying
element nodes. In other cases, the <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction is
more flexible, because it has a <code>select</code> attribute allowing selection of the
nodes or values to be copied.</p></div><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction has an optional
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute, whose value is a
whitespace-separated list of QNames that identify
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declarations.
This attribute is used only when copying element nodes. This list is expanded as
described in <a href="#attribute-sets"><i>10.2 Named Attribute Sets</i></a> to produce a sequence of attribute nodes. This sequence is
prepended to the sequence produced as a result of evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction has an optional <code>copy-namespaces</code>
attribute, with the value <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>. The default value is <code>yes</code>.
The attribute is used only when copying element nodes. If the value is set to <code>yes</code>, or
is omitted, then all the namespace nodes of the source element are copied as namespace nodes for
the result element. These copied namespace nodes are prepended
to the sequence produced as a result of evaluating the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> (it is immaterial whether they
come before or after any attribute nodes produced by expanding the <code>use-attribute-sets</code>
attribute).
If the value is set to <code>no</code>, then the namespace nodes are not copied.
However, namespace nodes will still be added to the result element as
<span class="verb">required</span> by the namespace
fixup process: see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction has an optional <code>inherit-namespaces</code>
attribute, with the value <code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>. The default value is <code>yes</code>.
The attribute is used only when copying element nodes. If the value is set to <code>yes</code>, or
is omitted, then the namespace nodes created for the newly constructed element (whether these were
copied from those of the source node, or generated as a result of namespace fixup) are copied
to the children and descendants of the newly constructed element, as described in
<a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>. If the value is set to <code>no</code>, then these
namespace nodes are not automatically copied to the children. This may result in namespace
undeclarations (such as <code>xmlns=""</code> or, in the case of XML Namespaces 1.1, <code>xmlns:p=""</code>)
appearing on the child elements when a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is serialized.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0950"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0950] </span></a>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> to use the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction to copy a node that has namespace-sensitive content
if the <code>copy-namespaces</code> attribute has the value
<code>no</code> and its explicit or implicit <code>validation</code> attribute has
the value <code>preserve</code>.
It is also a type error if either of these instructions (with <code>validation="preserve"</code>)
is used to copy an attribute having
namespace-sensitive content, unless the parent element is also copied.
A node has namespace-sensitive content if its typed value contains an item of type
<code>xs:QName</code> or <code>xs:NOTATION</code> or a type derived therefrom.
The reason this is an error is because the validity of the content depends on the
namespace context being preserved.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When attribute nodes are copied, whether with
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> or with <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, the processor does not
automatically copy any associated namespace information. The namespace used in the attribute
name itself will be declared by virtue of the namespace fixup process (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>) when
the attribute is added to an element in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>,
but if namespace prefixes
are used in the content
of the attribute (for example, if the value of the attribute is an XPath expression) then it
is the responsibility of the stylesheet author to ensure that suitable namespace nodes
are added to the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. This can be achieved by copying
the namespace nodes using
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, or by generating them using <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>.</p></div><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code> and
<code>validation</code> may be used on the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
instruction to validate the contents of an element, attribute
or document node against a
type definition, element declaration, or attribute declaration in a schema,
and thus to determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the new copy of an element or attribute node will carry.
These attributes are ignored when copying an item that is not an element, attribute
or document node.
When the node being copied is an element or document node,
these attributes also affect
the type annotation carried by any elements and attributes that have
the copied element or document node as an ancestor.
These two attributes are both optional, and if one is specified then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted.
The permitted values of these attributes and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The final <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> of the node in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> also depends on the
<code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> attributes of the instructions used to create the ancestors
of the node.</p></div><p>The base URI of a node is copied, except in the case of an
element node having an <code>xml:base</code> attribute, in which case the base URI of the new node
is taken as the value of the <code>xml:base</code> attribute, resolved if it is relative
against the base URI of the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> instruction. If the copied node is
subsequently attached as a child to a new element or document node,
the final copy of the node inherits
its base URI from its parent node, unless this is overridden using an <code>xml:base</code>
attribute.</p><p>When an <code>xml:id</code> attribute is copied, using either the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction, it is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether the value of the attribute is subjected to attribute value normalization (that is, effectively
applying the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-normalize-space"><code>normalize-space</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function).</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In most cases the value will already have been
subjected to attribute value normalization on the source tree, but if this processing has not been
performed on the source tree, it is not an error for it to be performed on the result tree.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="copy-of" id="copy-of"/>11.9.2 Deep Copy</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-copy-of"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:copy-of<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  copy-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip" /&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction can be used to
construct a copy of a sequence of nodes and/or atomic values,
with each new node containing
copies of all the children, attributes, and (by default)
namespaces of the original node,
recursively. The result of evaluating the instruction is a sequence
of items corresponding one-to-one with the
supplied sequence, and retaining its order.</p><p>The <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>select</code>
attribute contains an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>,
whose value may be any sequence of nodes and atomic values.
The items in this sequence are processed as follows:</p><ul><li><p>If the item is an element node, a new element is constructed
and appended to the result sequence. The new element will have the
same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> as the original, and it will have
deep
copies of the attribute nodes and children of the element node.</p><p>The new element will also have namespace nodes copied from
the original element node, unless they are excluded by specifying
<code>copy-namespaces="no"</code>. If this attribute is omitted, or takes the value
<code>yes</code>, then all the namespace nodes of the original element are copied to the
new element. If it takes the value <code>no</code>, then none of the namespace nodes are
copied: however, namespace nodes will still be created in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
as <span class="verb">required</span>
by the namespace fixup process: see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>. This attribute affects
all elements copied by this instruction: both elements selected directly by the <code>select</code>
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>,
and elements that are descendants of nodes selected by the <code>select</code> expression.
</p><p>The new element will have the same values of the <code>is-id</code>,
<code>is-idrefs</code>, and <code>nilled</code> properties as the original element.</p></li><li><p>If the item is a document node, the instruction adds a new
document node to the result sequence; the children of this document node will be one-to-one copies of
the children of the original document node (each copied according to the rules for its own node kind).</p></li><li><p>If the item is an attribute or namespace node, or
a text node, a comment, or a processing instruction, the same
rules apply as with <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> (see <a href="#shallow-copy"><i>11.9.1 Shallow Copy</i></a>).</p></li><li><p>If the item is an atomic
value, the value is appended to the result sequence, as with <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>.</p></li></ul><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> may
be used on the <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>
instruction to validate the contents of an
element, attribute or document node against a
type definition, element declaration, or attribute declaration in a schema
and thus to determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that the new copy of an element or attribute node will carry.
These attributes are applied individually to each element, attribute, and document node that is
selected by the expression in the <code>select</code> attribute.
These attributes are ignored when copying an item that is not an element, attribute
or document node.</p><p>The specified <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> apply directly
only to elements, attributes and document nodes created as copies of nodes actually selected by the <code>select</code> expression,
they do not apply to nodes that are implicitly copied because they have selected nodes as an ancestor.
However, these attributes do indirectly affect the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> carried by
such implicitly copied nodes, as a consequence of the validation process.</p><p>These two attributes are both optional, and if one is specified then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted.
The permitted values of these attributes and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validation"><i>19.2 Validation</i></a>.</p><p>Errors may occur when copying namespace-sensitive elements or attributes using
<code>validation="preserve"</code>. <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTTE0950">ERR XTTE0950</a>]</span>.</p><p>The base URI of a node is copied, except in the case of an
element node having an <code>xml:base</code> attribute, in which case the base URI of the new node
is taken as the value of the <code>xml:base</code> attribute, resolved if it is relative
against the base URI of the <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction. If the copied node is
subsequently attached as a child to a new element or document node,
the final copy of the node inherits
its base URI from its parent node, unless this is overridden using an <code>xml:base</code>
attribute.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="constructing-sequences" id="constructing-sequences"/>11.10 Constructing Sequences</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-sequence"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:sequence<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:sequence&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a> instruction may be used within a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> to construct a sequence of nodes
and/or atomic values. This sequence is returned as the result of the instruction.
Unlike most other instructions, <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>
can return a sequence containing existing nodes, rather than constructing new nodes.
When <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a> is used to add atomic values to a sequence,
the effect is very similar to the <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction.</p><p>The items comprising the result sequence are selected using the <code>select</code> attribute.</p><p>Any contained <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions are ignored by an
XSLT 2.0 processor, but can be used to define fallback behavior for an XSLT 1.0 processor running
in forwards compatibility mode.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18019" id="d5e18019"/>Example: Constructing a Sequence of Integers</div><p>For example, the following code:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="values" as="xs:integer*"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="(1,2,3,4)"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="(8,9,10)"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="sum($values)"/&gt;</pre></div><p>produces the output: <code>37</code>
</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18031" id="d5e18031"/>Example: Using <code>xsl:for-each</code> to Construct a Sequence</div><p>The following code constructs a sequence containing the value of the
<code>@price</code> attribute for selected elements (which we assume to be typed as <code>xs:decimal</code>),
or a computed price for those
elements that have no <code>@price</code> attribute. It then returns the average price:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="prices" as="xs:decimal*"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="//product"&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="@price"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="@price"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:sequence select="@cost * 1.5"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="avg($prices)"/&gt;</pre></div><p>Note that the existing <code>@price</code> attributes could equally have been added to the <code>$prices</code> sequence
using <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>. However, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>
would create a copy of the attribute node, which is not needed in this situation, while <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
would create a new text node, which then has to be converted to an <code>xs:decimal</code>. Using <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>,
which in this case atomizes the existing attribute node and adds an <code>xs:decimal</code> atomic value to
the result sequence, is a more direct way of achieving the same result.</p><p>This example could alternatively be solved at the XPath level:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:value-of select="avg(//product/(+@price, @cost*1.5)[1])"/&gt;</pre></div><p>(The apparently redundant <code>+</code> operator is there to atomize the
attribute value: the expression on the right hand side of the <code>/</code> operator must
not return a mixture of nodes and atomic values.)</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="number" id="number"/>12 Numbering</h2><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-number"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:number<br/>  value? = <var>expression</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  level? = "single" | "multiple" | "any"<br/>  count? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  from? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  format? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  lang? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  letter-value? = { "alphabetic" | "traditional" }<br/>  ordinal? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  grouping-separator? = { <var>char</var> }<br/>  grouping-size? = { <var>number</var> } /&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction is used to create a formatted
number. The result of the instruction is a newly constructed
text node containing the formatted number as its <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-place-marker" id="dt-place-marker" title="place marker"/>The
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction performs
two tasks: firstly, determining a <b>place marker</b> (this is
a sequence of integers, to allow for hierarchic numbering schemes such as
<code>1.12.2</code> or <code>3(c)ii</code>), and secondly,
formatting the place marker for output as a text node in the result sequence.<span class="definition">]</span>
The place marker to be formatted
can either be supplied directly, in the <code>value</code> attribute, or
it can be computed based on the position of a selected node within the tree
that contains it.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE0975"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE0975] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <code>value</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> is present unless the <code>select</code>,
<code>level</code>, <code>count</code>,
and <code>from</code> attributes are all absent.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The facilities described in this section are specifically designed
to enable the calculation and formatting of section numbers, paragraph numbers,
and the like.
For formatting of other numeric quantities, the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a>
function may be more suitable: see <a href="#format-number"><i>16.4 Number Formatting</i></a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="formatting-supplied-number" id="formatting-supplied-number"/>12.1 Formatting a Supplied Number</h3><p>The <a title="place marker" href="#dt-place-marker">place marker</a>
to be formatted may be
specified by an expression. The <code>value</code> attribute contains
the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.
The value of this expression is <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a> using the procedure defined
in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>, and each value <var>$V</var> in the atomized sequence is then
converted to the integer value returned by the XPath expression
<code>xs:integer(round(number($V)))</code>.
The resulting sequence of integers is used
as the place marker to be formatted.</p><p>If <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled for the instruction, then:</p><ul><li><p>all items in the <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>
sequence after the first are discarded;</p></li><li><p>If the atomized sequence is empty, it is replaced by
a sequence containing the <code>xs:double</code> value <code>NaN</code> as its only item;</p></li><li><p>If any value in the sequence cannot be converted to an integer
(this includes the case where the sequence contains a <code>NaN</code> value) then the string
<code>NaN</code> is inserted into the formatted result string in its proper position. The error
described in the following paragraph does not apply in this case.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTDE0980"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE0980] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if any undiscarded item in the atomized sequence supplied
as the value of the <code>value</code> attribute of <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
cannot be converted to an integer, or if the resulting integer is less than
0 (zero).
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The value zero does not arise when numbering nodes in a source
document, but it can arise in other numbering sequences. It is permitted specifically because
the rules of the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction are also invoked by functions such as
<a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a>: the minutes and seconds component of a time value
can legitimately be zero.</p></div><p>The resulting sequence is
formatted as a string using the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective values</a>
of the attributes specified in <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>; each of these attributes is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>. After conversion, the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
element constructs a new text node containing the resulting string, and returns this node.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18290" id="d5e18290"/>Example: Numbering a Sorted List</div><p>The following example numbers a sorted list:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="items"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="item"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sort select="."/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;xsl:number value="position()" format="1. "/&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="numbering-based-on-position" id="numbering-based-on-position"/>12.2 Numbering based on Position in a Document
</h3><p>If no <code>value</code> attribute is specified, then the
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction returns a new text
node containing a formatted
<a title="place marker" href="#dt-place-marker">place marker</a> that is based on the position
of a selected node within
its containing document. If the <code>select</code> attribute is present, then
the expression contained in the <code>select</code> attribute is evaluated to determine
the selected node. If the <code>select</code> attribute is omitted, then
the selected node is the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE0990"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE0990] </span></a>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction is evaluated, with no <code>value</code>
or <code>select</code> attribute,
when the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is not a node.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1000"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1000] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the result of evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
instruction is anything other than a single node.
</p><p> The following attributes control how the
selected node is to be numbered:</p><ul><li><p>The <code>level</code> attribute specifies rules for
selecting the nodes that are taken into account in allocating a number;
it has the values
<code>single</code>, <code>multiple</code> or <code>any</code>. The
default is <code>single</code>.</p></li><li><p>The <code>count</code> attribute is
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that specifies
which nodes are to be counted at those levels. If <code>count</code>
attribute is not specified, then it defaults to the pattern that
matches any node with the same node kind as the selected node and, if
the selected node has an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>, with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> as
the selected node.</p></li><li><p>The <code>from</code> attribute is
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that specifies
where counting starts.</p></li></ul><p>In addition, the attributes specified in <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>
are used for number to string conversion, as in the case when the
<code>value</code> attribute is specified.</p><p>The <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> element first constructs a sequence of
positive integers using the <code>level</code>, <code>count</code> and
<code>from</code> attributes. Where <code>level</code> is <code>single</code>
or <code>any</code>, this sequence will either be empty or contain a single
number; where <code>level</code> is <code>multiple</code>, the sequence may
be of any length. The sequence is constructed as follows:</p><p>Let <code>matches-count($node)</code> be a function that returns true if and only if the given
node <code>$node</code> matches the pattern given in the <code>count</code> attribute, or the implied
pattern (according to the rules given above) if the <code>count</code> attribute is omitted.</p><p>Let <code>matches-from($node)</code> be a function that returns true if and only if the given
node <code>$node</code> matches the pattern given in the <code>from</code> attribute,
or if <code>$node</code> is the root node of a tree.
If the <code>from</code> attribute is omitted, then the function returns true if
and only if <code>$node</code> is the root node of a tree.</p><p>Let <code>$S</code> be the selected node.</p><p>When <code>level="single"</code>: </p><ul><li><p>Let <code>$A</code> be the node sequence selected by the following expression:</p><p>
<code>   $S/ancestor-or-self::node()[matches-count(.)][1]</code>
</p><p>(this selects the innermost ancestor-or-self node that matches the <code>count</code> pattern)</p></li><li><p>Let
<code>$F</code> be the node sequence selected by the expression</p><p>
<code>   $S/ancestor-or-self::node()[matches-from(.)][1]</code>
</p><p>(this selects the innermost ancestor-or-self node that matches the <code>from</code> pattern):</p></li><li><p>Let <code>$AF</code> be the value of:</p><p>
<code>   $A[ancestor-or-self::node()[. is $F]]</code>
</p><p>(this selects $A if it is in the subtree rooted at $F, or the empty sequence otherwise)</p></li><li><p>If <code>$AF</code> is empty, return the empty sequence, <code>()</code>
</p></li><li><p>Otherwise return the value of:</p><p>
<code>   1 + count($AF/preceding-sibling::node()[matches-count(.)])</code>
</p><p>(the number of preceding siblings of the counted node that match the <code>count</code> pattern, plus one).</p></li></ul><p>When <code>level="multiple"</code>: </p><ul><li><p>Let <code>$A</code> be the node sequence selected by the expression</p><p>
<code>   $S/ancestor-or-self::node()[matches-count(.)]</code>
</p><p>(the set of ancestor-or-self nodes that match the <code>count</code> pattern)</p></li><li><p>Let <code>$F</code> be the node sequence selected by the expression</p><p>
<code>   $S/ancestor-or-self::node()[matches-from(.)][1]</code>
</p><p>(the innermost ancestor-or-self node that matches the <code>from</code> pattern)</p></li><li><p>Let <code>$AF</code> be the value of</p><p>
<code>   $A[ancestor-or-self::node()[. is $F]]</code>
</p><p>(the nodes selected in the first step that are in the subtree rooted at the node selected
in the second step)</p></li><li><p>Return the result of the expression </p><p>
<code>   for $af in $AF return 1+count($af/preceding-sibling::node()[matches-count(.)])</code>
</p><p>(a sequence of integers containing, for each of these nodes, one plus the number of
preceding siblings that match the <code>count</code> pattern)</p></li></ul><p>When <code>level="any"</code>: </p><ul><li><p>Let <code>$A</code> be the node sequence selected by the expression</p><p>
<code>   $S/(preceding::node()|ancestor-or-self::node())[matches-count(.)]</code>
</p><p>(the set of nodes consisting of the selected node together with all nodes,
other than attributes and namespaces, that precede the
selected node in document order, provided that they match the <code>count</code> pattern)</p></li><li><p>Let <code>$F</code> be the node sequence selected by the expression</p><p>
<code>   $S/(preceding::node()|ancestor-or-self::node())[matches-from(.)][last()]</code>
</p><p>(the last node in document order that matches the <code>from</code> pattern and that precedes
the selected node, using the same definition)</p></li><li><p>Let <code>$AF</code> be the node sequence <code>$A[. is $F or . &gt;&gt; $F]</code>.</p><p>(the nodes selected in the first step, excluding those that precede the node
selected in the second step)</p></li><li><p>If <code>$AF</code> is empty, return the empty sequence, <code>()</code>
</p></li><li><p>Otherwise return the value of the expression <code>count($AF)</code>
</p></li></ul><p>The sequence of numbers
(the <a title="place marker" href="#dt-place-marker">place marker</a>)
is then converted into a string using the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective values</a>
of the attributes specified in <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>; each of these attributes is
interpreted as an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute
value template</a>. After conversion, the resulting string is
used to create a text node, which forms the result of the
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18705" id="d5e18705"/>Example: Numbering the Items in an Ordered List</div><p>The following will number the items in an ordered list:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="ol/item"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
&lt;xsl:number/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;. &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18712" id="d5e18712"/>Example: Multi-Level Numbering</div><p>The following two rules will number <code>title</code> elements.
This is intended for a document that contains a sequence of chapters
followed by a sequence of appendices, where both chapters and
appendices contain sections, which in turn contain subsections.
Chapters are numbered 1, 2, 3; appendices are numbered A, B, C;
sections in chapters are numbered 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; sections in
appendices are numbered A.1, A.2, A.3. Subsections within
a chapter are numbered 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3; subsections within an appendix are
numbered A.1.1, A.1.2, A.1.3.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="title"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
&lt;xsl:number level="multiple"
count="chapter|section|subsection"
format="1.1 "/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="appendix//title" priority="1"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
&lt;xsl:number level="multiple"
count="appendix|section|subsection"
format="A.1 "/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18722" id="d5e18722"/>Example: Numbering Notes within a Chapter</div><p>This example numbers notes sequentially within a
chapter:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="note"&gt;
&lt;fo:block&gt;
&lt;xsl:number level="any" from="chapter" format="(1) "/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/fo:block&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="convert" id="convert"/>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</h3><p>The following attributes are used to control conversion of a
sequence of numbers into a string. The numbers are integers greater than
or equal to
0 (zero). The attributes are all optional.</p><p>The main attribute is <code>format</code>. The default value for
the <code>format</code> attribute is <code>1</code>. The
<code>format</code> attribute is split into a sequence of tokens where
each token is a maximal sequence of alphanumeric characters or a
maximal sequence of non-alphanumeric characters. <em>Alphanumeric</em> means
any character that has a Unicode category of Nd, Nl, No, Lu, Ll, Lt,
Lm or Lo <span>(see <a href="#Unicode">[Unicode]</a>)</span>.
The alphanumeric tokens (<em>format tokens</em>) indicate the format
to be used for each number in the sequence; in most cases the format token
is the same as the required representation of the number 1 (one).</p><p>Each non-alphanumeric token is either a prefix, a separator,
or a suffix. If there is a non-alphanumeric token
but no format token, then the single non-alphanumeric token is used as both the prefix and the suffix.
The prefix, if it exists, is the non-alphanumeric token that precedes
the first format token: the prefix always appears exactly once in the constructed string,
at the start. The suffix, if it exists, is the non-alphanumeric token that
follows the last format token: the suffix always appears exactly once in the constructed string,
at the end. All other non-alphanumeric tokens
(those that occur between two format tokens) are <em>separator tokens</em> and are
used to separate numbers in the sequence.</p><p>The <var>n</var>th format token
is used to format the <var>n</var>th number in the sequence. If
there are more numbers than format tokens, then the last format token
is used to format remaining numbers. If there are no format
tokens, then a format token of <code>1</code> is used to format all
numbers. Each number after the first is separated
from the preceding number by the separator token preceding the format
token used to format that number, or, if that is the
first format token, then by <code>.</code> (dot).</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e18781" id="d5e18781"/>Example: Formatting a List of Numbers</div><p>Given the sequence of numbers <code>5, 13, 7</code> and the
format token <code>A-001(i)</code>, the output will be the string
<code>E-013(vii)</code>
</p></div><p>Format tokens are interpreted as follows:</p><ul><li><p>Any token where the last character has a decimal digit value
of 1 (as specified in the Unicode character property database<span>, see <a href="#Unicode">[Unicode]</a></span>),
and the Unicode value of preceding characters is one less than the
Unicode value of the last character generates a decimal
representation of the number where each number is at least as long as
the format token. The digits used in the decimal
representation are the set of digits containing the digit character used
in the format token. Thus, a format token <code>1</code> generates the
sequence <code>0 1 2 ... 10 11 12 ...</code>, and a format token
<code>01</code> generates the sequence <code>00 01 02 ... 09 10 11 12
... 99 100 101</code>. A format token of <code>&amp;#x661;</code>
(Arabic-Indic digit one) generates the sequence <code>١</code> then <code>٢</code> then <code>٣</code> ...</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>A</code> generates the sequence <code>A
B C ... Z AA AB AC...</code>.</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>a</code> generates the sequence <code>a
b c ... z aa ab ac...</code>.</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>i</code> generates the sequence <code>i
ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x ...</code>.</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>I</code> generates the sequence <code>I
II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X ...</code>.</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>w</code> generates numbers written as lower-case words, for
example in English, <code>one two three four ...</code>
</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>W</code> generates numbers written as upper-case words, for
example in English, <code>ONE TWO THREE FOUR ...</code>
</p></li><li><p>A format token <code>Ww</code> generates numbers written as title-case words, for
example in English, <code>One Two Three Four ...</code>
</p></li><li><p>Any other format token indicates a
numbering sequence in which that token
represents the number 1 (one) (but see the note below).
It is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> which
numbering sequences, additional to those listed above, are supported.
If an implementation does not support a
numbering sequence represented by the given token, it <span class="verb">must</span> use a format
token of <code>1</code>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In some traditional numbering sequences additional signs are
added to denote that the letters should be interpreted as numbers;
these are not included in the format token. An example, see also
the example below, is classical Greek where a <em>dexia keraia</em>
and sometimes an <em>aristeri keraia</em> is added.</p></div></li></ul><p>For all format tokens other than the first kind above
(one that consists of decimal digits), there <span class="verb">may</span> be
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
lower and upper bounds on the range of numbers that
can be formatted using this format
token; indeed, for some numbering sequences there may be
intrinsic limits. For example, the formatting token <code>&amp;#x2460;</code>
(circled digit one) has a range of 1 to 20 imposed by the Unicode character repertoire.
For the numbering sequences described above
any upper bound imposed by the implementation <span class="verb">must not</span> be
less than 1000 (one thousand) and any lower bound must not be greater than 1.
Numbers that fall outside this range
<span class="verb">must</span> be formatted using the format token <code>1</code>.
The numbering sequence associated with the format token <code>1</code>
has a lower bound of 0 (zero).</p><p>The above expansions of numbering sequences for format tokens such as <code>a</code> and
<code>i</code> are indicative but not prescriptive. There are various conventions in use for
how alphabetic sequences continue when the alphabet is exhausted, and differing conventions for how
roman numerals are written (for example, <code>IV</code> versus <code>IIII</code> as the
representation of the number 4). Sometimes alphabetic sequences are used that omit
letters such as <code>i</code> and <code>o</code>. This
specification does not prescribe the detail of any sequence other than
those sequences consisting entirely of decimal digits.</p><p>Many numbering sequences are language-sensitive.
This applies especially to the sequence selected by the tokens <code>w</code>,
<code>W</code> and <code>Ww</code>.
It also applies to other sequences,
for example different languages using the Cyrillic alphabet use different
sequences of characters, each starting with the letter #x410 (Cyrillic
capital letter A). In such cases, the <code>lang</code>
attribute specifies which language's conventions are to be used; it has
the same range of values as <code>xml:lang</code>
(see <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a>).
If no <code>lang</code> value is specified, the language that is used is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
The set of languages for which numbering is supported is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
If a language is requested that is not supported,
the processor uses the language that it
would use if the <code>lang</code> attribute were omitted.</p><p>If the optional <code>ordinal</code> attribute is present, and if its value
is not a zero-length string, this indicates a request to output ordinal numbers rather than cardinal
numbers. For example, in English, the value <code>ordinal="yes"</code> when used with
the format token <code>1</code> outputs the sequence
<code>1st 2nd 3rd 4th ...</code>, and when used with the format token <code>w</code> outputs the sequence
<code>first second third fourth ...</code>.
In some languages, ordinal numbers vary depending on the grammatical context, for example they
may have different genders and may decline with the noun that they qualify. In such cases the value
of the <code>ordinal</code> attribute may
be used to indicate the variation of the ordinal number required.
The way in which the variation is indicated
will depend on the conventions of the language. For inflected languages that vary
the ending of the word,
the preferred approach is to indicate the required ending, preceded by a hyphen: for example in German,
appropriate values are <code>-e, -er, -es, -en</code>.
It is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
what combinations of values of the format token, the language, and the
<code>ordinal</code> attribute are supported.
If ordinal numbering
is not supported for the combination of the format token, the language, and the actual value of the
<code>ordinal</code> attribute, the request is ignored and cardinal numbers are generated instead.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e19050" id="d5e19050"/>Example: Ordinal Numbering in Italian</div><p>The specification <code>format="1" ordinal="-º" lang="it"</code>, if supported, should
produce the sequence:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>1º 2º 3º 4º ...</pre></div><p>The specification <code>format="Ww" ordinal="-o" lang="it"</code>, if supported, should
produce the sequence:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>Primo Secondo Terzo Quarto Quinto ...</pre></div></div><p>The <code>letter-value</code> attribute disambiguates between
numbering sequences that use letters. In many languages there are two
commonly used numbering sequences that use letters. One numbering
sequence assigns numeric values to letters in alphabetic sequence, and
the other assigns numeric values to each letter in some other manner
traditional in that language. In English, these would correspond to
the numbering sequences specified by the format tokens <code>a</code>
and <code>i</code>. In some languages, the first member of each
sequence is the same, and so the format token alone would be
ambiguous. A value of <code>alphabetic</code> specifies the
alphabetic sequence; a value of <code>traditional</code> specifies the
other sequence. If the <code>letter-value</code> attribute is not
specified, then it is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a> how any ambiguity is
resolved.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Implementations may use
<a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">extension attributes</a> on
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> to provide additional control over the way in which numbers are formatted.</p></div><p>The <code>grouping-separator</code> attribute gives the separator
used as a grouping (for example, thousands) separator in decimal numbering
sequences, and the optional <code>grouping-size</code> specifies the
size (normally 3) of the grouping. For example,
<code>grouping-separator=","</code> and <code>grouping-size="3"</code>
would produce numbers of the form <code>1,000,000</code> while
<code>grouping-separator="."</code> and <code>grouping-size="2"</code> would produce
numbers of the form <code>1.00.00.00</code>. If only one
of the <code>grouping-separator</code> and <code>grouping-size</code>
attributes is specified, then it is ignored.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e19133" id="d5e19133"/>Example: Format Tokens and the Resulting Sequences</div><p>These examples use non-Latin characters which might not display
correctly in all browsers, depending on the system configuration.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Description</th><th align="left">Format Token</th><th align="left">Sequence</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>French cardinal words</td><td>
<code>format="Ww" lang="fr"</code>
</td><td>Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre</td></tr><tr><td>German ordinal words</td><td>
<code>format="w" ordinal="-e" lang="de"</code>
</td><td>erste, zweite, dritte, vierte</td></tr><tr><td>Katakana numbering</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x30A2;"</code>
</td><td>ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ, カ, キ, ク, ケ, コ, サ,
シ, ス, セ, ソ, タ, チ, ツ, テ, ト, ナ, ニ,
ヌ, ネ, ノ, ハ, ヒ, フ, ヘ, ホ, マ, ミ, ム,
メ, モ, ヤ, ユ, ヨ, ラ, リ, ル, レ, ロ, ワ,
ヰ, ヱ, ヲ, ン</td></tr><tr><td>Katakana numbering in iroha order</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x30A4;"</code>
</td><td>イ, ロ, ハ, ニ, ホ, ヘ, ト, チ, リ, ヌ, ル,
ヲ, ワ, カ, ヨ, タ, レ, ソ, ツ, ネ, ナ, ラ,
ム, ウ, ヰ, ノ, オ, ク, ヤ, マ, ケ, フ, コ,
エ, テ, ア, サ, キ, ユ, メ, ミ, シ, ヱ, ヒ,
モ, セ, ス</td></tr><tr><td>Thai numbering</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x0E51;"</code>
</td><td>๑, ๒, ๓, ๔, ๕, ๖, ๗, ๘, ๙, ๑๐,
๑๑, ๑๒, ๑๓, ๑๔, ๑๕,
๑๖, ๑๗, ๑๘, ๑๙, ๒๐</td></tr><tr><td>Traditional Hebrew numbering</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x05D0;" letter-value="traditional"</code>
</td><td>א,
ב,
ג,
ד,
ה,
ו,
ז,
ח,
ט,
י,
יא,
יב,
יג,
יד,
טו,
טז,
יז,
יח,
יט,
כ</td></tr><tr><td>Traditional Georgian numbering</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x10D0;" letter-value="traditional"</code>
</td><td>ა,
ბ,
გ,
დ,
ე,
ვ,
ზ,
ჱ,
თ,
ი,
ია,
იბ,
იგ,
იდ,
იე,
ივ,
იზ,
იჱ,
ით,
</td></tr><tr><td>Classical Greek numbering (see note)</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x03B1;" letter-value="traditional"</code>
</td><td>
αʹ,
βʹ,
γʹ,
δʹ,
εʹ,
ϛʹ,
ζʹ,
ηʹ,
θʹ,
ιʹ,
ιαʹ,
ιβʹ,
ιγʹ,
ιδʹ,
ιεʹ,
ιϛʹ,
ιζʹ,
ιηʹ,
ιθʹ,
κʹ</td></tr><tr><td>Old Slavic numbering</td><td>
<code>format="&amp;#x0430;" letter-value="traditional"</code>
</td><td>А,
В,
Г,
Д,
Е,
Ѕ,
З,
И,
Ѳ,
Ӏ,
АӀ,
ВӀ,
ГӀ,
ДӀ,
ЕӀ,
ЅӀ,
ЗӀ,
ИӀ,
ѲӀ,
К</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note that Glassical Greek is an example where the format token is not the same as the
representation of the number 1.</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="sorting" id="sorting"/>13 Sorting</h2><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-sort-key-specification" id="dt-sort-key-specification" title="sort key specification"/>A
<b>sort key specification</b>
is a sequence of one or more adjacent <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements which together define rules
for sorting the items in an input sequence to form a sorted sequence.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-sort-key-component" id="dt-sort-key-component" title="sort key component"/>Within a
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>, each
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element defines one <b>sort key component</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
The first <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
element specifies the primary component of the sort key specification, the second <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
element specifies the secondary component of the sort key specification and so on.</p><p>A sort key specification may occur
immediately within an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When used within <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>, or <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a>,
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements must occur before any other children.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xsl-sort" id="xsl-sort"/>13.1 The <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> Element</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-sort"/><code>&lt;xsl:sort<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  lang? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  order? = { "ascending" | "descending" }<br/>  collation? = { <var>uri</var> }<br/>  stable? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  case-order? = { "upper-first" | "lower-first" }<br/>  data-type? = { "text" | "number" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:sort&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element defines a
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>. A sort key component
specifies how a <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a> is to be
computed for each item in the sequence being sorted, and also how two sort key values
are to be compared.</p><p>The value of a <a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>
is determined either by its <code>select</code> attribute, or by the contained
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>. If neither is
present, the default is
<code>select="."</code>, which has the effect of sorting on the actual value of the item
if it is an atomic value, or on the typed-value of the item if it is a node. If a <code>select</code>
attribute is present, its value <span class="verb">must</span> be an
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1015"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1015] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element with a <code>select</code> attribute has non-empty content.
</p><p>Those attributes of the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements whose values
are <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value templates</a>
are evaluated using the
same <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> as is used to evaluate the
<code>select</code> attribute of the containing instruction
(specifically, <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a>).</p><p>The <code>stable</code> attribute is permitted only on the first
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element within a <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1017"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1017] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element other than the first in a sequence of sibling
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements has a <code>stable</code> attribute.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-stable" id="dt-stable" title="stable"/>A
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
is said to be <b>stable</b> if its first <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
has no <code>stable</code> attribute, or has a <code>stable</code> attribute whose
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> is <code>yes</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="sorting-process" id="sorting-process"/>13.1.1 The Sorting Process</h4><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-initial-sequence" id="dt-initial-sequence" title="initial sequence"/>The sequence to be sorted
is referred to as the <b>initial sequence</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-sorted-sequence" id="dt-sorted-sequence" title="sorted sequence"/>The sequence after sorting
as defined by the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements
is referred to as the <b>sorted sequence</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-sort-key-value" id="dt-sort-key-value" title="sort key value"/>
For each item in the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>,
a value is computed
for each <a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>
within the <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>.
The value computed for an item by using the <var>N</var>th sort key component
is referred to as the <var>N</var>th <b>sort key value</b> of that item.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The items in the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>
are ordered into a <a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a> by comparing their
<a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a>.
The relative position of two items <var>A</var> and <var>B</var> in the sorted
sequence is determined as follows. The first sort key value of <var>A</var> is compared
with the first sort key value of <var>B</var>, according to the rules of the first
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>. If, under these rules,
<var>A</var> is less than <var>B</var>, then <var>A</var> will precede <var>B</var>
in the sorted sequence, unless the <code>order</code> attribute of this
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a> specifies
<code>descending</code>, in which case <var>B</var> will precede <var>A</var>
in the sorted sequence. If, however, the relevant sort key values compare equal,
then the second sort key value of <var>A</var> is compared
with the second sort key value of <var>B</var>, according to the rules of the second
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>.
This continues until two sort key values are found that compare unequal. If all
the sort key values compare equal,
and the <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
is <a title="stable" href="#dt-stable">stable</a>,
then <var>A</var> will precede <var>B</var> in the
<a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a> if and only if
<var>A</var> preceded <var>B</var> in the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>.
If all
the sort key values compare equal,
and the <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
is not <a title="stable" href="#dt-stable">stable</a>, then the relative order of <var>A</var> and
<var>B</var> in the
<a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a> is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If two items have equal <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a>,
and the sort is <a title="stable" href="#dt-stable">stable</a>, then their
order in the <a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a> will be the same
as their order in the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>, regardless
of whether <code>order="descending"</code> was specified on any or all of the
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key components</a>.</p></div><p>The <var>N</var>th sort key value is computed by evaluating either the
<code>select</code> attribute or the contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
of the <var>N</var>th <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element, or the expression <code>.</code> (dot) if neither is
present. This evaluation is done with the <a title="focus" href="#dt-focus">focus</a> set as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is the item in the
<a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a> whose
<a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a> is
being computed.</p></li><li><p>The <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>
is the position of that item in the initial sequence.</p></li><li><p>The <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>
is the size of the initial sequence.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>As in any other XPath expression, the <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function
may be used within the <code>select</code> expression of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> to refer to the
item that is the context item for the expression as a whole; that is, the item whose
<a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a> is being computed.</p></div><p>The <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> are
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>, and are then
compared. The way they are compared depends on their data type, as
described in the next section.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="comparing-sort-keys" id="comparing-sort-keys"/>13.1.2 Comparing Sort Key Values</h4><p>It is possible to force the system to compare
<a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> using the rules for a particular
data type by including a cast as part of the <a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>.
For example, <code>&lt;xsl:sort select="xs:date(@dob)"/&gt;</code>
will force the attributes to be compared as dates. In the absence of such a cast, the sort key values are compared using
the rules appropriate to their data type. Any values of type <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>
are cast to <code>xs:string</code>.</p><p>For backwards compatibility with XSLT 1.0, the <code>data-type</code> attribute
remains available. If
this has the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
<code>text</code>,
the atomized
<a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> are converted to strings before being compared.
If it has the effective value <code>number</code>, the atomized
sort key values are converted to doubles before being compared.
The conversion is done by using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-string"><code>string</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-number"><code>number</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>
function as appropriate. If the <code>data-type</code> attribute has
any other <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>,
then the value <span class="verb">must</span> be a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> with a non-empty prefix, and the effect of the
attribute is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1020"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1020] </span></a>If any <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a>, after
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomization</a> and any type conversion <span class="verb">required</span> by the
<code>data-type</code> attribute, is a sequence containing
more than one item, then the effect depends on whether the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
is evaluated with <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>.
With backwards compatible behavior, the effective sort key value is the first item in the sequence.
In other cases, this is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>.
</p><p>The set of <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> (after any conversion)
is first divided into two
categories: empty values, and ordinary values.
The empty sort key values represent those
items where the sort key value is an empty sequence. These values are considered for sorting
purposes to be equal to each other, but less than any other value.
The remaining values are classified as ordinary values.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1030"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1030] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if, for any
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>,
the set of <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> evaluated for all the items in the
<a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>, after any type conversion requested,
contains a pair of ordinary values for which the result of the
XPath <code>lt</code> operator is an error.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The above error condition may occur if the values to be sorted
are of a type that does not support ordering (for example, <code>xs:QName</code>) or if the
sequence is heterogeneous (for example, if it contains both strings and numbers). The error
can generally be prevented by invoking a cast or constructor function within the sort key
component.</p><p>The error condition is subject to the usual caveat that a processor is not required
to evaluate any expression solely in order to determine whether it raises an error. For example, if there
are several sort key components, then a processor is not required to evaluate or compare minor sort key
values unless the corresponding major sort key values are equal.</p></div><p>In general, comparison of two ordinary values is
performed according to the rules of the
XPath <code>lt</code> operator. To ensure a total ordering, the same
implementation of the
<code>lt</code> operator <span class="verb">must</span> be used for all the comparisons: the one that is chosen
is the one appropriate to the most specific type to which all the values can be converted by subtype substitution
and/or type promotion. For example, if the sequence contains both <code>xs:decimal</code> and <code>xs:double</code>
values, then the values are compared using <code>xs:double</code> comparison, even when comparing two
<code>xs:decimal</code> values.
NaN values, for sorting purposes, are considered to be equal to each other,
and less than any other numeric value. Special rules
also apply to the <code>xs:string</code> and <code>xs:anyURI</code>
types, and types derived by restriction therefrom<span>,</span>
as described in the next section.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="collating-sequences" id="collating-sequences"/>13.1.3 Sorting Using Collations</h4><p>The rules given in this section apply when comparing
values whose type is <code>xs:string</code>
or a type derived by restriction from <code>xs:string</code>,
or whose type is <code>xs:anyURI</code>
or a type derived by restriction from <code>xs:anyURI</code>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-collation" id="dt-collation" title="collation"/>Facilities in
XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 that require strings to be ordered rely on the concept of a named
<b>collation</b>. A collation is a set of rules that determine
whether two strings are equal, and if not, which of them is to be sorted before the other.<span class="definition">]</span>
A collation is
identified by a URI, but the manner in which this URI is associated with an actual rule or algorithm
is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>The one collation URI that must be recognized by every implementation is
<code>http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/collation/codepoint</code>, which provides the ability
to compare strings based on the Unicode codepoint values of the characters in the string.</p><p>For more information about collations, see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#string-compare">Section
7.3 Equality and Comparison of Strings</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
Some specifications, for example <a href="#UNICODE-TR10">[UNICODE TR10]</a>,
use the term "collation" to describe rules that can be tailored or parameterized for various
purposes. In this specification, a collation URI refers to a collation in which all such
parameters have already been fixed. Therefore, if a collation URI is specified, other
attributes such as <code>case-order</code> and <code>lang</code> are ignored.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The reason XSLT does not provide detailed mechanisms for defining collating sequences
is that many implementations will re-use collating mechanisms available from the underlying
implementation platform (for example, from the operating system or from the run-time library
of a chosen programming language). These will inevitably differ from one XSLT implementation
to another.</p></div><p>If the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element has a
<code>collation</code> attribute, then the strings are compared according to the rules for the named
<a title="collation" href="#dt-collation">collation</a>: that is, they are compared using the XPath
function call <code>compare($a, $b, $collation)</code>.</p><p>If the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
the <code>collation</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> is a relative URI, then it
is resolved against the base URI of the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1035"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1035] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <code>collation</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> (after resolving against
the base URI) is not a URI that is recognized
by the implementation as referring to a collation.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is entirely for the implementation to determine whether it
recognizes a particular collation URI. For example,
if the implementation allows collation URIs to contain parameters in the query part of the URI,
it is the implementation that determines whether a URI containing an unknown or invalid parameter
is or is not a recognized collation URI. The fact that this
error is described as non-recoverable thus does not prevent an implementation
applying a fallback collation if it chooses to do so.</p></div><p>The <code>lang</code> and <code>case-order</code> attributes are
ignored if a <code>collation</code> attribute
is present. But in the absence of a <code>collation</code>
attribute, these attributes provide input to an
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
algorithm to locate a suitable collation:</p><ul><li><p>The <code>lang</code> attribute indicates that a collation
suitable for a particular natural language <span class="verb">should</span> be used. The
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
the attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be a value that would be valid for the
<code>xml:lang</code> attribute (see <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a>).</p></li><li><p>The <code>case-order</code> attribute indicates whether
the desired collation <span class="verb">should</span> sort upper-case letters before
lower-case or vice versa. The
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
the attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be either <code>lower-first</code> (indicating
that lower-case letters precede upper-case letters in the collating
sequence) or <code>upper-first</code> (indicating that upper-case
letters precede lower-case).</p><p>When <code>lower-first</code> is requested, the
returned collation <span class="verb">should</span> have the property that when two strings differ only
in the case of one or more characters, then a string in which the first
differing character is lower-case should precede a string in which the
corresponding character is title-case, which should in turn precede a string in
which the corresponding character is upper-case. When upper-first is requested,
the
returned collation <span class="verb">should</span> have the property that when two strings differ only
in the case of one or more characters, then a string in which the first
differing character is upper-case should precede a string in which the
corresponding character is title-case, which should in turn precede a string in
which the corresponding character is lower-case.</p><p>So, for example, if <code>lang="en"</code>, then <code>A a B b</code> are sorted with
<code>case-order="upper-first"</code> and <code>a A b B</code> are sorted with <code>case-order="lower-first"</code>.</p><p>As a further example, if lower-first is requested, then a sorted sequence might be
"MacAndrew, macintosh, macIntosh, Macintosh, MacIntosh, macintoshes,
Macintoshes, McIntosh". If upper-first is requested, the same sequence would
sort as "MacAndrew, MacIntosh, Macintosh, macIntosh, macintosh, MacIntoshes,
macintoshes, McIntosh"</p></li></ul><p>If none of the <code>collation</code>, <code>lang</code> or <code>case-order</code>
attributes is present, the collation is chosen in an <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
way. It is not <span class="verb">required</span> that the default collation for sorting should be the same as
the <a title="default collation" href="#dt-default-collation">default collation</a> used when evaluating XPath expressions,
as described in <a href="#static-context"><i>5.4.1 Initializing the Static Context</i></a> and <a href="#default-collation-attribute"><i>3.6.1 The default-collation attribute</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is usually appropriate, when sorting, to use a strong collation, that is, one
that takes account of secondary differences (accents) and tertiary differences (case) between strings that are
otherwise equal. A weak collation, which ignores such differences, may be more suitable when comparing strings
for equality.</p><p>Useful background information on international sorting is provided in
<a href="#UNICODE-TR10">[UNICODE TR10]</a>. The <code>case-order</code> attribute may be interpreted
as described in section 6.6 of <a href="#UNICODE-TR10">[UNICODE TR10]</a>.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-sorted-sequence" id="creating-sorted-sequence"/>13.2 Creating a Sorted Sequence</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-perform-sort"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:perform-sort<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>+, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:perform-sort&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a> instruction is used to return a
<a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a>.</p><p>The <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>
is obtained either by evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute or
by evaluating the contained sequence constructor (but not both).
If there is no <code>select</code> attribute and no sequence
constructor then the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>
(and therefore, the <a title="sorted sequence" href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a>) is an empty sequence.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1040"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1040] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a> instruction with a <code>select</code> attribute has any content
other than <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> and <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions.
</p><p>The result of the <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a> instruction is the result of sorting its
<a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>
using its contained <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e20205" id="d5e20205"/>Example: Sorting a Sequence of Atomic Values</div><p>The following stylesheet function sorts a sequence
of atomic values using the value itself as the sort key.</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:function name="local:sort" as="xs:anyAtomicType*"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="in" as="xs:anyAtomicType*"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:perform-sort select="$in"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sort select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:perform-sort&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e20212" id="d5e20212"/>Example: Writing a Function to Perform a Sort</div><p>The following example defines a function that sorts books by price, and
uses this function to output the
five books that have the lowest prices:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:function name="bib:books-by-price" as="schema-element(bib:book)*"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="in" as="schema-element(bib:book)*"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:perform-sort select="$in"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sort select="xs:decimal(bib:price)"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:perform-sort&gt;
&lt;/xsl:function&gt;
...
&lt;xsl:copy-of select="bib:books-by-price(//bib:book)[position() = 1 to 5]"/&gt;
</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="sorted-iteration" id="sorted-iteration"/>13.3 Processing a Sequence in Sorted Order</h3><p>When used within <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> or
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, a
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a> indicates that
the sequence of items selected by that instruction is to be processed
in sorted order, not in the order of the supplied sequence.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e20233" id="d5e20233"/>Example: Processing Elements in Sorted Order</div><p>For example, suppose an employee database has the form</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;employees&gt;
&lt;employee&gt;
&lt;name&gt;
&lt;given&gt;James&lt;/given&gt;
&lt;family&gt;Clark&lt;/family&gt;
&lt;/name&gt;
...
&lt;/employee&gt;
&lt;/employees&gt;
</pre></div><p>Then a list of employees sorted by name could be generated
using:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="employees"&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="employee"&gt;
&lt;xsl:sort select="name/family"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:sort select="name/given"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="employee"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="name/given"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt; &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="name/family"/&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>When used within <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>, a
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
indicates the order in which the groups are to be processed.
For the effect of <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>, see
<a href="#grouping"><i>14 Grouping</i></a>.
</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="grouping" id="grouping"/>14 Grouping</h2><p>The facilities described in this section are designed to allow
items in a sequence to be grouped based on common values;
for example it allows grouping of elements having the same value for a particular attribute,
or elements with the same name, or elements with
common values for any other <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>. Since
grouping identifies items with duplicate values, the
same facilities also allow selection of the distinct values in
a sequence of items, that is, the elimination of duplicates.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Simple elimination of duplicates can also be achieved using the
function <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-distinct-values"><code>distinct-values</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> in the <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> library: see
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p></div><p>In addition these facilities allow grouping based on sequential position, for example
selecting groups of adjacent <code>para</code> elements. The facilities also provide an easy
way to do fixed-size grouping, for example identifying groups of three adjacent nodes,
which is useful when arranging data in multiple columns.</p><p>For each group of items identified, it is possible to evaluate
a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
for the group.
Grouping is nestable to multiple levels so that groups of distinct items can be
identified, then from among the distinct groups selected, further sub-grouping of
distinct items in the current group can be done. </p><p>It is also possible for one item to participate in more than one group.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="current-group" id="current-group"/>14.1 The Current Group</h3><a name="function-current-group" id="function-current-group"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">current-group</code>()<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">item()*</code></div><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-current-group" id="dt-current-group" title="current group"/>The evaluation context for
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> includes a component
called the <b>current group</b>, which is a sequence. The current group is the collection of
related items that are processed collectively in one iteration of the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>While an <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction is being evaluated,
the <a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a> will be non-empty. At other times, it will be an empty sequence.</p><p>The function <a href="#function-current-group"><code>current-group</code></a> returns the current group.</p><p>The function takes no arguments.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1060"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1060] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <a href="#function-current-group"><code>current-group</code></a> function is used
within a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="current-grouping-key" id="current-grouping-key"/>14.2 The Current Grouping Key</h3><a name="function-current-grouping-key" id="function-current-grouping-key"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">current-grouping-key</code>()<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:anyAtomicType?</code></div><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-current-grouping-key" id="dt-current-grouping-key" title="current grouping key"/>The evaluation context for
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> includes a component
called the <b>current grouping key</b>, which is an atomic value. The current grouping key is
the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a>
shared in common by all the items within the <a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>While an <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction with a <code>group-by</code>
or <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is being evaluated,
the <a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a> will be
a single atomic value. At other times, it will be the empty sequence.</p><p>The function <a href="#function-current-grouping-key"><code>current-grouping-key</code></a> returns the
<a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a>.</p><p>Although the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping keys</a> of all items in a group
are by definition equal, they are not necessarily identical. For example, one might be an <code>xs:float</code>
while another is an <code>xs:decimal</code>. The <a href="#function-current-grouping-key"><code>current-grouping-key</code></a> function is defined to
return the grouping key of the <a title="initial item" href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a> in the group,
after atomization and casting of <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> to <code>xs:string</code>.</p><p>The function takes no arguments.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1070"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1070] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <a href="#function-current-grouping-key"><code>current-grouping-key</code></a> function is used
within a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="xsl-for-each-group" id="xsl-for-each-group"/>14.3 The <code>xsl:for-each-group</code> Element</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-for-each-group"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:for-each-group<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-by? = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-adjacent? = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-starting-with? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  group-ending-with? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  collation? = { <var>uri</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;</code></p><p>This element is an <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a> that
may be used anywhere within a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-group" id="dt-group" title="group"/>The <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction
allocates the items in an input sequence into
<b>groups</b> of items (that is, it establishes a collection of sequences) based either on common
values of a grouping key, or on
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that the initial or final
node in a group must match.<span class="definition">]</span>
The <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that forms the content of the
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction is evaluated once
for each of these groups.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-population" id="dt-population" title="population"/>The sequence of items
to be grouped, which
is referred to as the <b>population</b>,
is determined by evaluating the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> contained in the
<code>select</code> attribute.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-population-order" id="dt-population-order" title="population order"/>The population is treated as a sequence;
the order of items in this sequence is referred to as <b>population order</b>
<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>A group is never empty. If the
population is empty, the number of groups will be zero. The assignment
of items to groups depends on the <code>group-by</code>,
<code>group-adjacent</code>, <code>group-starting-with</code>,
and <code>group-ending-with</code> attributes.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1080"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1080] </span></a>These four attributes
are mutually exclusive: it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if none of these
four attributes is present, or if more than one of them is present.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1090"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1090] </span></a>It is an error to specify the
<code>collation</code> attribute if neither the
<code>group-by</code> attribute nor <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is specified.
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-grouping-key" id="dt-grouping-key" title="grouping key"/>If either of the
<code>group-by</code> attribute or <code>group-adjacent</code> attributes is present, then
<b>grouping keys</b> are calculated for each item in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a>.
The grouping keys are the items in the sequence obtained by evaluating the expression
contained in the <code>group-by</code> attribute or <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute,
atomizing the result, and then casting an <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> value to <code>xs:string</code>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>When calculating grouping keys for an item in the population,
the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> contained in the <code>group-by</code> or <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is
evaluated with that item as the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>, with its position
in <a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a> as the
<a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>, and with the size of the
population as the <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>. The resulting sequence is
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>, and each atomic value in the atomized
sequence acts as a <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a> for that item in the population.</p><p>If the <code>group-by</code> attribute is present, then an item in the population
may have multiple grouping keys: that is, the <code>group-by</code> expression evaluates to a sequence.
The item is included in as many groups as there are distinct grouping keys (which may be zero). If the <code>group-adjacent</code>
attribute is used, then each item in the population <span class="verb">must</span> have exactly one grouping key value.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1100"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1100] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the grouping key evaluated using
the <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is an empty sequence, or a sequence containing
more than one item.
</p><p>
<a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">Grouping keys</a> are compared using the rules for the
<code>eq</code> operator appropriate to their dynamic type. Values of type
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> are cast to <code>xs:string</code> before the comparison. Two items
that are not comparable using the <code>eq</code> operator are considered to be not equal, that is,
they are allocated to different groups.
If the values are strings, or untyped atomic values,
then if there is a <code>collation</code> attribute
the values are compared using the collation specified
as the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of
the <code>collation</code> attribute, resolved if relative against the base URI of the
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element. If there is no <code>collation</code>
attribute then the
<a title="default collation" href="#dt-default-collation">default collation</a> is used.</p><p>For the purposes of grouping, the value <code>NaN</code> is considered equal to itself.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1110"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1110] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the collation URI specified to <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
(after resolving against the base URI)
is a collation that is not recognized
by the implementation. (For notes, <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE1035">ERR XTDE1035</a>]</span>.)
</p><p>For more information on collations, see <a href="#collating-sequences"><i>13.1.3 Sorting Using Collations</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1120"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1120] </span></a>When the <code>group-starting-with</code>
or <code>group-ending-with</code> attribute
is used, it is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the
result of evaluating the <code>select</code> expression
contains an item that is not a node.
</p><ul><li><p>If the <code>group-by</code> attribute is present, the
items in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a> are examined, in population order.
For each item <var>J</var>, the expression in the <code>group-by</code> attribute is evaluated to produce
a sequence of zero or more <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a> values. For each
one of these <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping keys</a>, if there is already a group
created to hold items having that grouping key value, <var>J</var> is added to that group; otherwise
a new group is created for items with that grouping key value, and <var>J</var>
becomes its first member.</p><p>An item in the population may thus be assigned to zero, one, or many groups.
An item will never be assigned more than once
to the same group; if two or more grouping keys for the same item are equal, then the duplicates are ignored.
An
<em>item</em> here means the item at a particular position within the population—if the population contains
the same node at several different positions in the sequence then a group may indeed contain duplicate nodes.</p><p>The number of groups will be the same as the number of
distinct grouping key values present in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a>.
</p><p>If the population contains values of different numeric types that differ
from each other by small amounts, then the <code>eq</code> operator is not transitive,
because of rounding effects occurring during type promotion. The effect of this is described
in <a href="#non-transitivity"><i>14.5 Non-Transitivity</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>If the <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is present, the
items in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a> are examined, in population order.
If an item
has the same value for the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a> as its preceding item within
the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a>
(in <a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>), then it is assigned to the same group as its
preceding item; otherwise a new group is created and the item
becomes its first member.</p></li><li><p>If the <code>group-starting-with</code> attribute is present, then its value <span class="verb">must</span> be
a <a href="#NT-Pattern">pattern</a>. In this case, the items in the population <span class="verb">must</span> all be nodes.</p><p>The nodes in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a> are
examined in <a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>. If a node matches
the pattern, or is the first node in the population, then a new group is created and the
node becomes its first member. Otherwise, the node is assigned to the same group as its
preceding node within the population.</p></li><li><p>If the <code>group-ending-with</code> attribute is present, then its value <span class="verb">must</span> be
a <a href="#NT-Pattern">pattern</a>. In this case, the items in the population <span class="verb">must</span> all be nodes.</p><p>The nodes in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a> are
examined in <a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>.
If a node is the first node in the population, or if the previous node in the population matches
the pattern, then a new group is created and the
node becomes its first member. Otherwise, the node is assigned to the same group as its
preceding node within the population.</p></li></ul><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-initial-item" id="dt-initial-item" title="initial item"/>For
each <a title="group" href="#dt-group">group</a>, the item within the group that is first in
<a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>
is known as the <b>initial item</b> of the group.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-first-appearance" id="dt-first-appearance" title="order of first appearance"/>There is an ordering
among <a title="group" href="#dt-group">groups</a> referred to as the <b>order of first
appearance</b>. A group <var>G</var> is defined to precede a group <var>H</var> in order of first
appearance if the <a title="initial item" href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a> of <var>G</var> precedes the initial item of <var>H</var>
in population order. If two groups <var>G</var> and <var>H</var> have the same initial item
(because the item is in both groups) then <var>G</var> precedes <var>H</var> if the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a>
of <var>G</var> precedes the grouping key of <var>H</var> in the sequence that results from evaluating the
<code>group-by</code> expression of this initial item.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-processing-order" id="dt-processing-order" title="processing order"/>There
is another ordering among groups referred to as <b>processing order</b>.
If group <var>R</var> precedes group <var>S</var> in processing
order, then in the result sequence returned by the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction
the items generated by processing
group <var>R</var> will precede the items generated by processing group <var>S</var>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>If there are no <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements immediately within
the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element, the <a title="processing order" href="#dt-processing-order">processing order</a> of
the <a title="group" href="#dt-group">groups</a> is the <a title="order of first appearance" href="#dt-first-appearance">order of first appearance</a>.</p><p>Otherwise, the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements immediately within
the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element define the processing
order of the <a title="group" href="#dt-group">groups</a> (see <a href="#sorting"><i>13 Sorting</i></a>).
They do not affect the order of items within each group.
Multiple <a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key components</a> are allowed,
and are evaluated in major-to-minor
order. If two groups have the same values for all their sort key components,
they are processed in order of first appearance <span>if the
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
is <a title="stable" href="#dt-stable">stable</a>, otherwise in an
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a> order.</span></p><p>The <code>select</code>
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
of an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element is
evaluated once for each <a title="group" href="#dt-group">group</a>. During this evaluation,
the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
is the <a title="initial item" href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a> of the group,
the <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a> is the position
of this item within the
set of initial items (that is, one item for each group in the
<a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a>) in
<a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>,
the <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>
is the number of groups, the
<a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a> is the group
whose <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a> is being determined,
and the <a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a>
is the grouping key for that group. If the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction uses the
<code>group-starting-with</code> or <code>group-ending-with</code> attributes, then the current grouping
key is the empty sequence.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21027" id="d5e21027"/>Example: Sorting Groups</div><p>For example, this means that if
the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a> is
<code>@category</code>, you can sort the groups in order of
their grouping key by writing <code>&lt;xsl:sort select="current-grouping-key()"/&gt;</code>;
or you can sort the groups in order of size by writing
<code>&lt;xsl:sort select="count(current-group())"/&gt;</code>
</p></div><p>The <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> contained
in the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
element is evaluated once for each of the <a title="group" href="#dt-group">groups</a>, in
<a title="processing order" href="#dt-processing-order">processing order</a>. The sequences that result are concatenated,
in <a title="processing order" href="#dt-processing-order">processing order</a>, to form the result of the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
element. Within the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, the
<a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is
the <a title="initial item" href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a> of the relevant group, the
<a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a> is
the position of this item among
the sequence of initial items (one item for each group)
arranged in <a title="processing order" href="#dt-processing-order">processing order</a> of the groups,
the <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a> is the number of groups,
the <a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a>
is the <a title="group" href="#dt-group">group</a> being processed,
and the <a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a>
is the grouping key for that group. If the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction uses the
<code>group-starting-with</code> or <code>group-ending-with</code> attributes, then the current grouping
key is the empty sequence.
This has the effect that
within the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, a call on <code>position()</code> takes
successive values <code>1, 2, ... last()</code>.</p><p>During the evaluation of a
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>, the
<a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a> and
<a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a> are set to the empty sequence, and revert to
their previous values on completion of evaluation of the stylesheet function.</p><p>On completion of the evaluation of the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction, the
<a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a> and
<a title="current grouping key" href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a> revert to their previous value.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="grouping-examples" id="grouping-examples"/>14.4 Examples of Grouping</h3><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21137" id="d5e21137"/>Example: Grouping Nodes based on Common Values</div><p>The following example groups a list of nodes based on common values. The resulting
groups are numbered but unsorted, and a total is calculated for each group. </p><p>Source XML document:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;cities&gt;
&lt;city name="Milano" country="Italia" pop="5"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Paris" country="France" pop="7"/&gt;
&lt;city name="München" country="Deutschland" pop="4"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Lyon" country="France" pop="2"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Venezia" country="Italia" pop="1"/&gt;
&lt;/cities&gt;</pre></div><p>More specifically, the aim is to produce a four-column table,
containing one row for each distinct country. The four columns are to contain
first, a sequence number giving the number of the row;
second, the name of the country, third, a comma-separated
alphabetical list of the city names within that
country, and fourth, the sum of the <code>pop</code> attribute for
the cities in that country.</p><p>Desired output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Position&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Country&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;List of Cities&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Population&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Italia&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Milano, Venezia&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;France&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Lyon, Paris&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Deutschland&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;München&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</pre></div><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;table xsl:version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Position&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Country&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;City List&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Population&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="cities/city" group-by="@country"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="position()"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@country"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="current-group()/@name" separator=", "/&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="sum(current-group()/@pop)"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21160" id="d5e21160"/>Example: A Composite Grouping Key</div><p>Sometimes it is necessary to use a composite grouping key: for example, suppose the source document
is similar to the one used in the previous examples, but allows multiple entries for the same country
and city, such as:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;cities&gt;
&lt;city name="Milano" country="Italia" year="1950" pop="5.23"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Milano" country="Italia" year="1960" pop="5.29"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Padova" country="Italia" year="1950" pop="0.69"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Padova" country="Italia" year="1960" pop="0.93"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Paris" country="France" year="1951" pop="7.2"/&gt;
&lt;city name="Paris" country="France" year="1961" pop="7.6"/&gt;
&lt;/cities&gt;</pre></div><p>Now suppose we want to list the average value of <code>@pop</code> for each (country, name) combination.
One way to handle this is to concatenate the parts of the key, for example
<code>&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="concat(@country, '/', @name)"&gt;</code>. A more flexible solution
is to nest one <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element directly inside another:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="cities/city" group-by="@country"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()" group-by="@name"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@name"/&gt;, &lt;xsl:value-of select="@country"/&gt;:
&lt;xsl:value-of select="avg(current-group()/@pop)"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;</pre></div><p>The two approaches are not precisely equivalent. If the code were changed to output the
value of <code>position()</code> alongside <code>@name</code> then the first approach (a single <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
element with a compound key) would number the groups (1, 2, 3), while the second approach (two nested
<a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> elements) would number them (1, 2, 1).</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21194" id="d5e21194"/>Example: Identifying a Group by its Initial Element</div><p>The next example identifies a group not by the presence of a common value, but rather
by adjacency in document order. A group consists of an <code>h2</code> element,
followed by all the <code>p</code> elements up to the next <code>h2</code> element.</p><p>Source XML document:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;XSLT is used to write stylesheets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;XQuery is used to query XML databases.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What is a stylesheet?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A stylesheet is an XML document used to define a transformation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stylesheets may be written in XSLT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;XSLT 2.0 introduces new grouping constructs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;</pre></div><p>Desired output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;chapter&gt;
&lt;section title="Introduction"&gt;
&lt;para&gt;XSLT is used to write stylesheets.&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;para&gt;XQuery is used to query XML databases.&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;/section&gt;
&lt;section title="What is a stylesheet?"&gt;
&lt;para&gt;A stylesheet is an XML document used to define a transformation.&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;para&gt;Stylesheets may be written in XSLT.&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;para&gt;XSLT 2.0 introduces new grouping constructs.&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;/section&gt;
&lt;/chapter&gt;</pre></div><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="body"&gt;
&lt;chapter&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-starting-with="h2" &gt;
&lt;section title="{self::h2}"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="current-group()[self::p]"&gt;
&lt;para&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/para&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/section&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/chapter&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><p>The use of <code>title="{self::h2}"</code> rather than <code>title="{.}"</code> is
to handle the case where the first element is not an <code>h2</code> element.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21231" id="d5e21231"/>Example: Identifying a Group by its Final Element</div><p>The next example illustrates how a group of related elements can be identified
by the last element in the group, rather than the first. Here the absence of the attribute
<code>continued="yes"</code> indicates the end of the group.</p><p>Source XML document:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;page continued="yes"&gt;Some text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page continued="yes"&gt;More text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Yet more text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page continued="yes"&gt;Some words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page continued="yes"&gt;More words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Yet more words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>Desired output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;pageset&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Some text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;More text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Yet more text&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;/pageset&gt;
&lt;pageset&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Some words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;More words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;page&gt;Yet more words&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;/pageset&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;</pre></div><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="doc"&gt;
&lt;doc&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="*"
group-ending-with="page[not(@continued='yes')]"&gt;
&lt;pageset&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="current-group()"&gt;
&lt;page&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/page&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/pageset&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/doc&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21251" id="d5e21251"/>Example: Adding an Element to Several Groups</div><p>The next example shows how an item can be added to multiple groups. Book titles
will be added to one group for each indexing term marked up within the title.</p><p>Source XML document:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;titles&gt;
&lt;title&gt;A Beginner's Guide to &lt;ix&gt;Java&lt;/ix&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Learning &lt;ix&gt;XML&lt;/ix&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Using &lt;ix&gt;XML&lt;/ix&gt; with &lt;ix&gt;Java&lt;/ix&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/titles&gt;</pre></div><p>Desired output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;h2&gt;Java&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Beginner's Guide to Java&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Using XML with Java&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;XML&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learning XML&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Using XML with Java&lt;/p&gt;</pre></div><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="titles"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="title" group-by="ix"&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="current-grouping-key()"/&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="current-group()"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21268" id="d5e21268"/>Example: Grouping Alternating Sequences of Elements</div><p>In the final example, the membership of a node within a group is based both on adjacency
of the nodes in document order, and on common values. In this case, the grouping key
is a boolean condition, true or false, so the effect is that a grouping
establishes a maximal sequence of nodes for which the condition is true, followed by a maximal
sequence for which it is false, and so on.</p><p>Source XML document:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;talk,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;eat, or&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;use your mobile telephone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
while you are in the cinema.&lt;/p&gt;</pre></div><p>Desired output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;talk,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;eat, or&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;use your mobile telephone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;while you are in the cinema.&lt;/p&gt;</pre></div><p>Solution:</p><p>This requires creating a <code>p</code> element around the maximal sequence
of sibling nodes that does not include a <code>ul</code> or <code>ol</code> element.</p><p>This can be done by using <code>group-adjacent</code>, with a grouping key that is true
if the element is a <code>ul</code> or <code>ol</code> element, and false otherwise:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="p"&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="node()"
group-adjacent="self::ul or self::ol"&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()"&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="non-transitivity" id="non-transitivity"/>14.5 Non-Transitivity</h3><p>If the population contains values of different numeric types that differ
from each other by small amounts, then the <code>eq</code> operator is not transitive,
because of rounding effects occurring during type promotion. It is thus
possible to have three values <var>A</var>, <var>B</var>, and <var>C</var> among the grouping keys of the
population such that <code>A eq B</code>, <code>B eq C</code>, but <code>A ne C</code>.</p><p>For example, this arises when computing</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;xsl:for-each-group group-by="." select="
xs:float('1.0'),
xs:decimal('1.0000000000100000000001',
xs:double( '1.00000000001')"&gt;</pre></div><p>because the values of type <code>xs:float</code> and <code>xs:double</code> both compare equal to the
value of type <code>xs:decimal</code> but not equal to each other.</p><p>In this situation the results <span class="verb">must</span> be equivalent to the results obtained by the
following algorithm:</p><ul><li><p>For each item I in the population in population order, for each of the
grouping keys K for that item in sequence, the processor identifies those
existing groups G such that the grouping key of the initial item of G is equal
to K.</p></li><li><p>If there is exactly one group G, then I is added to this group, unless I is
already a member of this group.</p></li><li><p>If there is no group G, then a new group is created with I as its first item.</p></li><li><p>If there is more than one group G (which can only happen in exceptional
circumstances involving non-transitivity), then one of these groups is selected
in an implementation-dependent way, and I is added to this group, unless I is
already a member of this group.</p></li></ul><p>The effect of these rules is that (a) every item in a non-singleton group has a
grouping key that is equal to that of at least one other item in that group,
(b) for any two distinct groups, there is at least one pair of items (one from
each group) whose grouping keys are not equal to each other.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="regular-expressions" id="regular-expressions"/>15 Regular Expressions</h2><p>The <a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> library for XPath 2.0 defines three functions that make use of
regular expressions:</p><ul><li><p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-matches"><code>matches</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> returns a boolean result that indicates whether or not a
string matches a given regular expression.</p></li><li><p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-replace"><code>replace</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> takes a string as input and returns a string obtained by
replacing all substrings that match a given regular expression with a replacement string.</p></li><li><p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-tokenize"><code>tokenize</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> returns a sequence of strings formed by breaking a supplied
input string at any separator that matches a given regular expression.</p></li></ul><p>These functions are described in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p><p>For more complex string processing than is possible using these functions, XSLT provides an
instruction <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>, which is defined in this section.</p><p>The regular expressions used by this instruction, and the flags that control the interpretation
of these regular expressions, <span class="verb">must</span> conform to the syntax defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>
(see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#regex-syntax">Section
7.6.1 Regular Expression Syntax</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>), which is itself
based on the syntax defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="analyze-string" id="analyze-string"/>15.1 The <code>xsl:analyze-string</code> instruction</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-analyze-string"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:analyze-string<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  <b>regex</b> = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  flags? = { <var>string</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-matching-substring">xsl:matching-substring</a>?, <a href="#element-non-matching-substring">xsl:non-matching-substring</a>?, <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>*) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:analyze-string&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-matching-substring"/><code>&lt;xsl:matching-substring&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:matching-substring&gt;</code></p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-non-matching-substring"/><code>&lt;xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction takes as input a string (the result of evaluating
the expression in the <code>select</code>
attribute) and a regular expression (the effective value of the <code>regex</code> attribute).</p><p>If the result of evaluating the <code>select</code> expression is not a string, it is converted
to a string by applying the <a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.</p><p>The <code>flags</code> attribute may be used to control the interpretation of the regular expression.
If the attribute is omitted, the effect is the same as supplying a zero-length string.
This is interpreted in the same
way as the <code>$flags</code> attribute of the functions <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-matches"><code>matches</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-replace"><code>replace</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>,
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-tokenize"><code>tokenize</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>. Specifically, if it contains the letter <code>m</code>,
the match operates in multiline mode. If it contains the letter <code>s</code>, it operates in dot-all mode.
If it contains the letter <code>i</code>,
it operates in case-insensitive mode. If it contains the letter <code>x</code>, then whitespace
within the regular expression is ignored. For more detailed specifications
of these modes, see <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> (<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#flags">Section
7.6.1.1 Flags</a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>).</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Because the <code>regex</code> attribute is an attribute value template,
curly brackets within the regular expression must be doubled. For example, to match a sequence of one to
five characters, write <code>regex=".{{1,5}}"</code>. For regular expressions
containing many curly brackets it may be more convenient to use a notation such as
<code>regex="{'[0-9]{1,5}[a-z]{3}[0-9]{1,2}'}"</code>, or to use a variable.</p></div><p>The <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction may have two child elements: <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>
and <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a>.
Both elements are optional, and neither may appear more than once. At least one
of them must be present. If both are present, the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>
element must come first.</p><p>The content of the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction must take one of the following forms:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>A single <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> instruction, followed by zero or more
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions</p></li><li><p>A single <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> instruction, followed by zero or more
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions</p></li><li><p>A single <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> instruction,
followed by a single <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> instruction,
followed by zero or more <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions</p></li></ol><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1130"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1130] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction
contains neither an <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> nor an
<a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> element.
</p><p>Any <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> elements among the children of the
<a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction
are ignored by an XSLT 2.0 processor, but allow fallback behavior to be defined when the stylesheet
is used with an XSLT 1.0 processor operating in forwards-compatible mode.</p><p>This instruction is designed to process all the non-overlapping substrings of the input string that
match the regular expression supplied.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1140"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1140] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>regex</code> attribute
does not conform to the <span class="verb">required</span> syntax for
regular expressions, as specified in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
If the regular expression is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1145"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1145] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>flags</code> attribute
has a value other than the values defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
If the value of the attribute is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1150"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1150] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>regex</code> attribute
is a regular expression that matches a zero-length string: or more specifically, if the regular expression <code>$r</code>
and flags <code>$f</code> are such that <code>matches("", $r, $f)</code> returns true.
If the regular expression is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>The <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction
starts at the beginning of the input string and attempts to find
the first substring that matches the regular expression. If there are
several matches, the first match is defined to be the one whose starting
position comes first in the string.
If several alternatives within the regular expression
both match at the same position in the input string, then the match that is
chosen is the first alternative that matches. For example, if the
input string is <code>The quick brown fox jumps</code> and the regular expression
is <code>jump|jumps</code>, then the match that is chosen is <code>jump</code>.
</p><p>Having found the first match, the instruction proceeds to find the
second and subsequent matches by repeating the search, starting at the first
character that was not included in the previous match.</p><p>The input string is thus partitioned into a sequence of substrings, some of which
match the regular expression, others which do not match it.
Each substring will contain at least one character.
This sequence of substrings is
processed using the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>
and <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> child instructions. A matching substring is
processed using the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> element, a non-matching substring
using the <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> element. Each of these elements
takes a sequence constructor as its content. If the element is absent, the effect is the same
as if it were present with empty content. In processing each substring, the contents of the substring
will be the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
(as a value of type <code>xs:string</code>); the position of the substring within the
sequence of matching and non-matching substrings will be the <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>;
and the number of
matching and non-matching substrings will be the <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a>.</p><p>If the input is a zero-length string, the number of substrings will be zero,
so neither the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a>
nor <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> elements will be evaluated.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="regex-group" id="regex-group"/>15.2 Captured Substrings</h3><a name="function-regex-group" id="function-regex-group"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">regex-group</code>(<code class="arg">$group-number</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:integer</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-current-captured-substrings" id="dt-current-captured-substrings" title="current captured substrings"/>While the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> instruction is active, a set of
<b>current captured substrings</b> is
available, corresponding to the parenthesized sub-expressions of the regular expression.<span class="definition">]</span> These captured
substrings are accessible using the function <a href="#function-regex-group"><code>regex-group</code></a>. This function takes an
integer argument to identify the group, and returns a string representing the captured substring.</p><p>The <var>N</var>th captured substring (where <var>N</var> &gt; 0) is the string matched by the
subexpression contained by the <var>N</var>th left parenthesis in the regex. The zeroeth captured substring
is the string that matches the entire regex.
This means that the value of <code>regex-group(0)</code> is initially the same as the
value of <code>.</code> (dot).</p><p>The function returns the zero-length string if there is no
captured substring with the relevant number. This can occur for a number of reasons:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The number is negative.</p></li><li><p>The regular expression does not contain a parenthesized sub-expression with the given number.</p></li><li><p>The parenthesized sub-expression exists, and did not match any part of the input string.</p></li><li><p>The parenthesized sub-expression exists, and matched a zero-length substring of the input string.</p></li></ol><p>The set of captured substrings is a context variable with dynamic scope. It is initially an empty sequence.
During the evaluation of an <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> instruction it is set to the sequence of matched substrings
for that regex match. During the evaluation of an <a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> instruction or a
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> or
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a> it is set to an empty sequence.
On completion of an instruction that changes the value, the variable reverts to its previous value.</p><p>The value of the <a title="current captured substrings" href="#dt-current-captured-substrings">current captured substrings</a>
is unaffected through calls of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>, or by expansion of named
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute sets</a>.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="regex-examples" id="regex-examples"/>15.3 Examples of Regular Expression Matching</h3><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21842" id="d5e21842"/>Example: Replacing Characters by Elements</div><p>Problem: replace all newline characters in the <code>abstract</code> element
by empty <code>br</code> elements:</p><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:analyze-string select="abstract" regex="\n"&gt;
&lt;xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;
&lt;/xsl:analyze-string&gt;</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21857" id="d5e21857"/>Example: Recognizing non-XML Markup Structure</div><p>Problem: replace all occurrences of <code>[...]</code> in the
<code>body</code> by <code>cite</code> elements, retaining the content
between the square brackets as the content of the new element.</p><p>Solution:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:analyze-string select="body" regex="\[(.*?)\]"&gt;
&lt;xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;cite&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;
&lt;/xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;
&lt;/xsl:analyze-string&gt;</pre></div><p>Note that this simple approach fails if the <code>body</code> element contains
markup that needs to be retained. In this case it is necessary to apply the regular expression
processing to each text node individually. If the <code>[...]</code> constructs span multiple
text nodes (for example, because there are elements within the square brackets) then it probably
becomes necessary to make two or more passes over the data.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e21883" id="d5e21883"/>Example: Parsing a Date</div><p>Problem: the input string contains a date such as <code>23 March 2002</code>.
Convert it to the form <code>2002-03-23</code>.</p><p>Solution (with no error handling if the input format is incorrect):</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:variable name="months" select="'January', 'February', 'March', ..."/&gt;
&lt;xsl:analyze-string select="normalize-space($input)"
regex="([0-9]{{1,2}})\s([A-Z][a-z]+)\s([0-9]{{4}})"&gt;
&lt;xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;xsl:number value="regex-group(3)" format="0001"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;-&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;xsl:number value="index-of($months, regex-group(2))" format="01"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;-&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;xsl:number value="regex-group(1)" format="01"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:matching-substring&gt;
&lt;/xsl:analyze-string&gt;</pre></div><p>Note the use of <code>normalize-space</code> to simplify the work done by the regular expression,
and the use of doubled curly brackets because the <code>regex</code> attribute is an attribute value
template.</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="add-func" id="add-func"/>16 Additional Functions</h2><p>This section describes XSLT-specific additions to the
<a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> library.
Some of these additional functions also make use of
information specified by <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a>
in the stylesheet; this section also describes these
declarations.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="document" id="document"/>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</h3><a name="function-document" id="function-document"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">document</code>(<code class="arg">$uri-sequence</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">item()*</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">node()*</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">document</code>(<code class="arg">$uri-sequence</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">item()*</code>, <code class="arg">$base-node</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">node()</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">node()*</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function allows
access to XML documents identified by a URI.</p><p>The first argument contains a sequence of URI references. The second argument, if present, is
a node whose base URI is used to resolve any relative URI references contained in the first argument.</p><p>A sequence of absolute URI references is obtained as follows.</p><ul><li><p>For an item in <code>$uri-sequence</code> that is an instance of <code>xs:string</code>,
<code>xs:anyURI</code>, or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, the value is cast to <code>xs:anyURI</code>.
If the resulting URI reference is an absolute URI reference then it is used <em>as is</em>.
If it is a relative URI reference, then it is resolved against the base URI of <code>$base-node</code>
if supplied, or against the base URI from the static context otherwise
(this will usually be the base URI of the stylesheet module).
A relative URI is resolved against a base URI using
the rules defined in <a href="#RFC3986">[RFC3986]</a>.</p></li><li><p>For an item in <code>$uri-sequence</code> that is a node,
the node is <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>.
The result <span class="verb">must</span> be a sequence whose
items are all instances of <code>xs:string</code>, <code>xs:anyURI</code>, or
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>. Each of these
values is cast to <code>xs:anyURI</code>, and
if the resulting URI reference is an absolute URI reference then it is used <em>as is</em>.
If it is a relative URI reference, then it is resolved against the base URI of <code>$base-node</code>
if supplied, or against the base URI of the node that contained it otherwise.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The XPath rules for function calling ensure that it is a type error if the supplied value
of the second argument is anything other than a single node. If
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a> is enabled, then
a sequence of nodes may be supplied, and the first node in the sequence will be used.</p></div><p>Each of these absolute URI references is then processed as follows. Any
fragment identifier that is present in the URI reference is removed, and the resulting absolute URI
is cast to a string and then
passed to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>. This returns
a document node. If an error occurs during evaluation of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function,
the processor <span class="verb">may</span> either signal this error in the normal way, or <span class="verb">may</span> recover by ignoring the failure,
in which case the failing URI will not contribute any nodes to the result of the
<a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function.</p><p>If the URI reference contained no fragment identifier, then this document node is included in
the sequence of nodes returned by the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function.</p><p>If the URI reference contained a fragment identifier, then the fragment identifier is interpreted
according to the rules for the media type of the resource representation
identified by the URI, and is used to select
zero or more nodes that are descendant-or-self nodes of the returned document node.
As described in <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>, the media type is available
as part of the evaluation context for a transformation.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE1160"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE1160] </span></a>When a URI reference
contains a fragment identifier,
it is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if the media type is not one that is recognized by the
processor, or if the fragment identifier does not conform to the rules for fragment identifiers
for that media type, or if the fragment identifier selects something other than a sequence of
nodes (for example, if it selects a range of characters within a text node).
The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the fragment
identifier and return the document node.
The set of media types recognized
by a processor is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The recovery action here is different from XSLT 1.0</p></div><p>The sequence of nodes returned by the function is in document order, with no duplicates.
This order has no necessary relationship to the order in which URIs were supplied
in the <code>$uri-sequence</code> argument.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>One effect of these rules is that unless XML entities or <code>xml:base</code> are used,
and provided that the base URI of the stylesheet module is known,
<code>document("")</code> refers to the document node of the containing stylesheet module
(the definitive rules are in <a href="#RFC3986">[RFC3986]</a>).
The XML resource containing the stylesheet module is processed exactly as if
it were any other XML document, for example there is no special recognition
of <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> elements, and no special treatment of comments
and processing instructions.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="unparsed-text" id="unparsed-text"/>16.2 Reading Text Files</h3><a name="function-unparsed-text" id="function-unparsed-text"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">unparsed-text</code>(<code class="arg">$href</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">unparsed-text</code>(<code class="arg">$href</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>, <code class="arg">$encoding</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a>
function reads an external
resource (for example, a file) and returns
its contents as a string.</p><p>The <code>$href</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> be
a string in the form of a URI. The URI <span class="verb">must</span> contain no fragment identifier, and <span class="verb">must</span>
identify a resource that can be read as text. If the URI is a relative URI, then
it is resolved relative to the base URI from the static context.</p><p>If the value of the <code>$href</code> argument is an empty sequence,
the function returns an empty sequence.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If a different
base URI is appropriate (for example, when resolving a relative URI read from a source document) then
the relative URI should be resolved using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-resolve-uri"><code>resolve-uri</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function
before passing it to the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function.</p></div><p>The <code>$encoding</code> argument, if present, is the name of an encoding.
The values for this attribute follow
the same rules as for the <code>encoding</code> attribute in an XML declaration. The only values which
every <a title="implementation" href="#dt-implementation">implementation</a> is <span class="verb">required</span> to recognize are
<code>utf-8</code> and <code>utf-16</code>.</p><p>The encoding of the external resource is determined as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>external encoding information is used if available, otherwise</p></li><li><p>if the media type of the resource is <code>text/xml</code> or <code>application/xml</code>
(see <a href="#RFC2376">[RFC2376]</a>),
or if it matches the conventions <code>text/*+xml</code> or <code>application/*+xml</code>
(see <a href="#RFC3023">[RFC3023]</a> and/or its successors),
then the encoding is recognized as specified in <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a>, otherwise</p></li><li><p>the value of the <code>$encoding</code> argument is used if present, otherwise</p></li><li><p>the processor <span class="verb">may</span> use <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
heuristics to determine the likely encoding, otherwise</p></li><li><p>UTF-8 is assumed.</p></li></ol><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The above rules are chosen for consistency with <a href="#xinclude">[XInclude]</a>.
Files with an XML media type are treated specially because there
are use cases for this function where the retrieved text is to be included as unparsed XML within
a CDATA section of a containing document, and because processors are likely to be able to reuse
the code that performs encoding detection for XML external entities.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1170"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1170] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a URI
contains a fragment identifier, or if it cannot be used to retrieve a resource
containing text.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1190"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1190] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a resource
contains octets that cannot be decoded into Unicode characters
using the specified encoding, or if the resulting characters are not permitted XML characters.
This includes the case where the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> does not support
the requested encoding.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1200"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1200] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the second argument of the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function is omitted and the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> cannot infer the encoding using
external information and the encoding is not UTF-8.
</p><p>The result is a string containing the text of the resource
retrieved using the URI.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If the text file contains characters such as <code>&lt;</code> and <code>&amp;</code>,
these will typically be output as <code>&amp;lt;</code> and <code>&amp;amp;</code> when the string is
written to a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> and
serialized as XML or HTML. If these characters actually
represent markup (for example, if the text file contains HTML), then the stylesheet can
attempt to write them as markup to the output file using the <code>disable-output-escaping</code>
attribute of the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction (see <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>).
Note, however, that implementations are not required to support this feature.</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e22296" id="d5e22296"/>Example: Copying Unparsed HTML Boilerplate</div><p>This example attempts to read an HTML file and copy it, as HTML, to the serialized
output file:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:output method="html"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('header.html', 'iso-8859-1')"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('footer.html', 'iso-8859-1')"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
</pre></div></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e22303" id="d5e22303"/>Example: Splitting an Input File into a Sequence of Lines</div><p>Often it is necessary to split a text file into a sequence of lines, representing each line
as a string. This can be achieved by using the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function
in conjunction with the XPath <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-tokenize"><code>tokenize</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function. For example:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:for-each select="tokenize(unparsed-text($in), '\r?\n')"&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;</pre></div><p>Note that the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function does not normalize line endings. This
example has therefore been written to recognize both Unix and Windows conventions for end-of-line,
namely a single newline (#x0A) character or a carriage return / line feed pair (#x0D #x0A).</p></div><p>Because errors in evaluating the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function are
non-recoverable, two functions are provided to allow a stylesheet to determine whether a call
with particular arguments would succeed:</p><a name="function-unparsed-text-available" id="function-unparsed-text-available"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">unparsed-text-available</code>(<code class="arg">$href</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="2"><code class="function">unparsed-text-available</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$href</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$encoding</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></td></tr></table></div><p>The <a href="#function-unparsed-text-available"><code>unparsed-text-available</code></a> function determines whether a call on
the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function with identical arguments would
return a string.</p><p>If the first argument is an empty sequence, the function returns false.
If the second argument is an empty sequence, the function behaves as if the second argument
were omitted.</p><p>In other cases, the function returns true if a call on <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> with the same
arguments would succeed, and false if a call on <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> with
the same arguments would fail with a non-recoverable dynamic error.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This requires that the <a href="#function-unparsed-text-available"><code>unparsed-text-available</code></a> function
should actually attempt to read the resource identified by the URI, and check that it is correctly
encoded and contains no characters that are invalid in XML. Implementations may avoid the cost
of repeating these checks for example by caching the validated contents of the resource, to
anticipate a subsequent call on the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function.
Alternatively, implementations may be able to rewrite an expression such as
<code>if (unparsed-text-available(A)) then unparsed-text(A) else ...</code> to
generate a single call internally.</p></div><p>The functions <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> and
<a href="#function-unparsed-text-available"><code>unparsed-text-available</code></a> have the same requirement for stability
as the functions <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc-available"><code>doc-available</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>. This means that unless the user has explicitly stated a requirement
for a reduced level of stability, either of these functions if called twice with the same
arguments during the course of a transformation <span class="verb">must</span> return the same results
each time; moreover, the results
of a call on <a href="#function-unparsed-text-available"><code>unparsed-text-available</code></a>
<span class="verb">must</span> be consistent with the results of
a subsequent call on <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> with the same arguments.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="key" id="key"/>16.3 Keys</h3><p>Keys provide a way to work with documents that contain an implicit
cross-reference structure. They make it easier to locate the nodes within a document
that have a given value for a given attribute or child element, and they provide
a hint to the implementation that certain access paths in the document need to
be efficient.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="xsl-key" id="xsl-key"/>16.3.1 The <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> Declaration</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-key"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:key<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  <b>match</b> = <var>pattern</var><br/>  use? = <var>expression</var><br/>  collation? = <var>uri</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:key&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a>
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>
is used to declare <a title="key" href="#dt-key">keys</a>. The
<code>name</code> attribute specifies the name of the key. The value
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, which is expanded as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>. The <code>match</code> attribute is a <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>; an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> element
applies to all nodes that match the pattern
specified in the <code>match</code> attribute.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-key" id="dt-key" title="key"/>A <b>key</b> is defined as
a set of <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
that share the same name.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The value of the key may be specified either using the <code>use</code> attribute or
by means of the contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1205"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1205] </span></a>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration has a <code>use</code> attribute and has non-empty content, or
if it has empty content and no <code>use</code> attribute.
</p><p>If the <code>use</code> attribute is present, its value is
an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> specifying the
values of the key. The expression will be evaluated with the node that
matches the pattern as the context node.
The result of evaluating the
expression is <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>.</p><p>Similarly, if a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
is present, it is used to determine the values of the key. The sequence constructor will be evaluated
with the node that matches the pattern as the context node. The result of evaluating the
sequence constructor is <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-key-specifier" id="dt-key-specifier" title="key specifier"/>The expression in
the <code>use</code> attribute and the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> within
an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration are
referred to collectively as the <b>key specifier</b>. The key specifier determines
the values that may be used to find a node using this <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>There is no requirement that all the values of a key should
have the same type.</p></div><p>The presence of an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration makes it
easy to find a node that matches the <code>match</code> pattern if any of the values
of the <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a>
(when applied to that node) are known. It also provides
a hint to the implementation that access to the nodes by means of these values needs
to be efficient (many implementations are likely to
construct an index or hash table to achieve this).
Note that the <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a>
in general returns a sequence of values, and any one
of these may be used to locate the node.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration is not bound to a specific source
document. The source document to which it applies is determined only when the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a>
function is used to locate nodes using the key. Keys can be used to locate nodes within any source document
(including temporary trees), but each use of the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function searches one document
only.</p></div><p>The optional <code>collation</code> attribute is used only when
deciding
whether two strings are equal for the purposes of key matching. Specifically, two values <code>$a</code>
and <code>$b</code> are considered equal if the result of the function call
<code>compare($a, $b, $collation)</code> is zero.
The effective collation for an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration is the
collation specified in its <code>collation</code> attribute if present,
resolved against the base URI of the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> element,
or the
<a title="default collation" href="#dt-default-collation">default collation</a> that is in scope for the
<a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration otherwise; the effective collation must be the same for all the
<a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations making up a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1210"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1210] </span></a>It is a static error if
the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration
has a <code>collation</code> attribute whose value
(after resolving against the base URI)
is not a URI recognized by the implementation
as referring to a collation.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1220"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1220] </span></a>It is a static error if there are
several <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> with the same key name and different
effective collations. Two collations are the same if their URIs are equal under the rules
for comparing <code>xs:anyURI</code> values, or if the implementation can determine that they
are different URIs referring to the same collation.
</p><p>It is possible to have:</p><ul><li><p>multiple <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations with the same name;</p></li><li><p>a node that matches the <code>match</code> patterns of several different
<a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations, whether these have the
same key name or different key names;</p></li><li><p>a node that returns more than one value from its <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a>;</p></li><li><p>a key value that identifies more than one node (the key values for different nodes do not need
to be unique).</p></li></ul><p>An <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration with higher
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> does
not override another of lower import precedence; all the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations
in the stylesheet are effective regardless of their import precedence.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="keys" id="keys"/>16.3.2 The <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> Function</h4><a name="function-key" id="function-key"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">key</code>(<code class="arg">$key-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>, <code class="arg">$key-value</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:anyAtomicType*</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">node()*</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="3"><code class="function">key</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$key-name</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$key-value</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:anyAtomicType*</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$top</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">node()</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">node()*</code></td></tr></table></div><p>The <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function does for keys what the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-id"><code>id</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function does for IDs.</p><p>The <code>$key-name</code> argument
specifies the name of the <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>. The value of the argument <span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>, which is expanded as
described in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1260"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1260] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the value
is
not a valid QName, or if there is no
namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the QName, or if the
name obtained by expanding the QName is not the same as the expanded
name of any <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>The <code>$key-value</code> argument to the
<a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function is considered as a sequence. The set of requested
key values is formed by atomizing the supplied
value of the argument, using the standard
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.
Each of the resulting atomic values is considered as a requested key value.
The result of the function is
a sequence of nodes, in document order and with duplicates removed,
comprising those nodes in the selected subtree (see below) that
are matched by an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration whose name is the same as the
supplied key name, where the result of evaluating the <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a> contains
a value that is equal to one of these requested key values,
under the rules appropriate to the XPath <code>eq</code> operator for the two
values in question, using the <code>collation</code>
attributes of the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration when comparing strings.
No error is reported if two values are encountered that are
not comparable; they are regarded for the purposes of this function as being not equal.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Under the rules for the <code>eq</code> operator, untyped atomic values
are converted to strings, not to the type of the other operand. This means, for example, that if the
expression in the <code>use</code> attribute returns a date, supplying an untyped atomic value
in the call to the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function will return an empty sequence.</p></div><p>If the second argument is an empty sequence, the result of the
function will be an empty sequence.</p><p>Different rules apply when <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible</a>
behavior is enabled. A <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a> (that is, a set of <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations
sharing the same key name) is processed in backwards compatible mode if any of the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> elements
in the definition of the <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a> enables backwards compatible behavior. When a
<a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a> is processed in backwards compatible mode, then:</p><ul><li><p>The result of evaluating the <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a>
in any <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration having this key name is converted after atomization to a sequence of strings,
by applying a cast to each item in the sequence.</p></li><li><p>When the first argument to the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function specifies this key name, then the value
of the second argument is converted after
atomization to a sequence of strings, by applying a cast to each item in the sequence.</p></li><li><p>The values are then compared as strings.</p></li></ul><p>The third argument is used to identify the selected subtree.
If the argument
is present, the selected subtree is the set of nodes that have <var>$top</var> as an ancestor-or-self node.
If the argument
is omitted, the selected subtree is the document containing the context node. This means that the third argument
effectively defaults to <code>/</code>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1270"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1270] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
to call the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function with two arguments if there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or if the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node; or to call
the function with three arguments if the root of the tree containing the node supplied in the third
argument is not a document node.
</p><p>The result of the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function can be described more specifically as follows.
The result is a sequence containing
every node <var>$N</var> that satisfies the following conditions:</p><ul><li><p>
<code>$N/ancestor-or-self::node() intersect $top</code> is non-empty. (If the third
argument is omitted, <code>$top</code> defaults to <code>/</code>)</p></li><li><p>
<var>$N</var> matches the pattern specified in the <code>match</code> attribute of
an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration whose <code>name</code> attribute matches
the name specified in the <code>$key-name</code> argument.</p></li><li><p>When the <a title="key specifier" href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a> of that
<a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration is evaluated with
a <a title="singleton focus" href="#dt-singleton-focus">singleton focus</a> based on <var>$N</var>,
the <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a> value of the resulting sequence includes a
value that compares equal to at least one item in the atomized value of the sequence
supplied as <code>$key-value</code>, under the rules of the <code>eq</code> operator
with the collation selected as described above.</p></li></ul><p>The sequence returned by the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function will be in document order, with duplicates
(that is, nodes having the same identity) removed. </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e22904" id="d5e22904"/>Example: Using a Key to Follow Cross-References</div><p>For example, given a declaration</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:key name="idkey" match="div" use="@id"/&gt;</pre></div><p>an expression <code>key("idkey",@ref)</code> will return the same
nodes as <code>id(@ref)</code>, assuming that the only ID attribute
declared in the XML source document is:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;!ATTLIST div id ID #IMPLIED&gt;</pre></div><p>and that the <code>ref</code> attribute of the context node
contains no whitespace.</p><p>Suppose a document describing a function library uses a
<code>prototype</code> element to define functions</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;prototype name="sqrt" return-type="xs:double"&gt;
&lt;arg type="xs:double"/&gt;
&lt;/prototype&gt;</pre></div><p>and a <code>function</code> element to refer to function names</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;function&gt;sqrt&lt;/function&gt;</pre></div><p>Then the stylesheet could generate hyperlinks between the
references and definitions as follows:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:key name="func" match="prototype" use="@name"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="function"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;
&lt;a href="#{generate-id(key('func',.))}"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="prototype"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a name="{generate-id()}"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Function: &lt;/b&gt;
...
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>When called with two arguments, the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function always
returns nodes that are in the same document as the context node. To
retrieve a node from any other document, it is necessary
either to change the context node, or to supply a third argument.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e22950" id="d5e22950"/>Example: Using Keys to Reference other Documents</div><p>For example, suppose a document contains bibliographic references in the
form <code>&lt;bibref&gt;XSLT&lt;/bibref&gt;</code>, and there is a
separate XML document <code>bib.xml</code> containing a bibliographic
database with entries in the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;entry name="XSLT"&gt;...&lt;/entry&gt;</pre></div><p>Then the stylesheet could use the following to transform the
<code>bibref</code> elements:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:key name="bib" match="entry" use="@name"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="bibref"&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="name" select="."/&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="document('bib.xml')/key('bib',$name)"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This relies on the ability in XPath 2.0 to have a function call
on the right-hand side of the <code>/</code> operator in a path expression.</p></div><p>The following code would also work:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:key name="bib" match="entry" use="@name"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="bibref"&gt;
&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="key('bib', ., document('bib.xml'))"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="format-number" id="format-number"/>16.4 Number Formatting</h3><a name="function-format-number" id="function-format-number"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">format-number</code>(<code class="arg">$value</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">numeric?</code>, <code class="arg">$picture</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="3"><code class="function">format-number</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$value</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">numeric?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$picture</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$decimal-format-name</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></td></tr></table></div><p>The <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function formats
<code>$value</code> as a string using the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
specified by the
<code>$picture</code> argument and the decimal-format named by the <code>$decimal-format-name</code> argument, or
the default decimal-format, if there is no <code>$decimal-format-name</code> argument.
The syntax of the picture string is described in
<a href="#processing-picture-string"><i>16.4.2 Processing the Picture String</i></a>.</p><p>The <code>$value</code> argument may be of any numeric data type (<code>xs:double</code>,
<code>xs:float</code>, <code>xs:decimal</code>, or their subtypes including <code>xs:integer</code>).
Note that if an <code>xs:decimal</code> is supplied, it is not automatically promoted to an <code>xs:double</code>,
as such promotion can involve a loss of precision.</p><p>If the supplied value of the <code>$value</code> argument is an empty sequence, the function
behaves as if the supplied value were the <code>xs:double</code> value <code>NaN</code>.</p><p>The value of <code>$decimal-format-name</code>
<span class="verb">must</span> be a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>, which is expanded as
described in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>. The result of the function is the formatted string
representation of the supplied number.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1280"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1280] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the name specified as the
<code>$decimal-format-name</code> argument
is not a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, or
if its prefix has not been declared in an in-scope namespace declaration, or
if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> does not contain a declaration of a decimal-format with a matching
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="defining-decimal-format" id="defining-decimal-format"/>16.4.1 Defining a Decimal Format</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-decimal-format"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:decimal-format<br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  decimal-separator? = <var>char</var><br/>  grouping-separator? = <var>char</var><br/>  infinity? = <var>string</var><br/>  minus-sign? = <var>char</var><br/>  NaN? = <var>string</var><br/>  percent? = <var>char</var><br/>  per-mille? = <var>char</var><br/>  zero-digit? = <var>char</var><br/>  digit? = <var>char</var><br/>  pattern-separator? = <var>char</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a>
element controls the interpretation of a <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
used by the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function.</p><p>A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> may contain multiple
<a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations
and may include or import <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> that also contain
<a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations. The name of an <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration
is the value of its <code>name</code> attribute, if any.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-decimal-format" id="dt-decimal-format" title="decimal format"/>All
the <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations in a stylesheet
that share the same name are grouped into a named <b>decimal format</b>;
those that have no name are grouped into a single unnamed decimal format.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>If a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> does not contain a declaration of
the unnamed decimal format, a declaration equivalent to
an <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> element with no attributes
is implied.</p><p>The attributes of the <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a>
declaration establish values for a number of variables used as input to
the algorithm followed by the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function.
An outline of the purpose of each attribute is given below; however, the definitive
explanations are given later, as part of the description of this algorithm.</p><p>For any named <a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal format</a>,
the effective value of each attribute is taken from an <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration
that has that name, and that specifies an explicit value
for the required attribute. If there is no such declaration, the default value of the attribute
is used. If there is more than one such declaration, the one with highest
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> is used.</p><p>For any unnamed <a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal format</a>,
the effective value of each attribute is taken from an <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration
that is unnamed, and that specifies an explicit value
for the required attribute. If there is no such declaration, the default value of the attribute
is used. If there is more than one such declaration, the one with highest
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> is used.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1290"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1290] </span></a>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if a named or unnamed
<a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal format</a> contains two conflicting
values for the same attribute in different
<a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations having the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, unless there is another definition
of the same attribute with higher import precedence.
</p><p>The following attributes control the interpretation of
characters in the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a> supplied to the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a>
function, and also specify characters that may
appear in the result of formatting the number. In each case the value <span class="verb">must</span>
be a single character <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTSE0020">ERR XTSE0020</a>]</span>.</p><ul><li><p>
<code>decimal-separator</code> specifies the character used
for the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>; the default value is the period character
(<code>.</code>)</p></li><li><p>
<code>grouping-separator</code> specifies the character used
for the <var>grouping-sign</var>, which is typically used as a thousands
separator; the default value is the
comma character (<code>,</code>)</p></li><li><p>
<code>percent</code> specifies the character used for the
<var>percent-sign</var>; the default value is the percent character
(<code>%</code>)</p></li><li><p>
<code>per-mille</code> specifies the character used for the
<var>per-mille-sign</var>; the default value is the Unicode per-mille character
(#x2030)</p></li><li><p>
<code>zero-digit</code> specifies the character used for the
<var>digit-zero-sign</var>; the default value is the digit zero
(<code>0</code>). This character <span class="verb">must</span> be a digit (category Nd in
the Unicode property database), and it <span class="verb">must</span> have the numeric value zero.
This attribute implicitly defines the Unicode
character that is used to represent each of the values 0 to 9 in the final
result string: Unicode is organized so that each set of decimal digits forms
a contiguous block of characters in numerical sequence.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1295"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1295] </span></a>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the character specified
in the <code>zero-digit</code> attribute is not a digit or is a digit that does not have
the numeric value zero.
</p><p>The following attributes control the interpretation of characters
in the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a> supplied to the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a>
function. In each case the value <span class="verb">must</span> be a single character
<span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTSE0020">ERR XTSE0020</a>]</span>.</p><ul><li><p>
<code>digit</code> specifies the character used for the <var>digit-sign</var>
in the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>; the default value is the number sign character
(<code>#</code>)</p></li><li><p>
<code>pattern-separator</code> specifies the character used
for the <var>pattern-separator-sign</var>, which
separates positive and negative sub-pictures in a <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>; the
default value is the semi-colon character (<code>;</code>)</p></li></ul><p>The following attributes specify characters or strings that may
appear in the result of formatting the number:</p><ul><li><p>
<code>infinity</code> specifies the string used for the
<var>infinity-symbol</var>; the default value is the string
<code>Infinity</code>
</p></li><li><p>
<code>NaN</code> specifies the string used for the
<var>NaN-symbol</var>, which is used to represent the value NaN (not-a-number);
the default value is the string <code>NaN</code>
</p></li><li><p>
<code>minus-sign</code> specifies the character used for the
<var>minus-symbol</var>; the default value is the hyphen-minus character
(<code>-</code>, #x2D). The value <span class="verb">must</span> be a single character.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1300"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1300] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if,
for any named or unnamed decimal format, the variables
representing characters used in a <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
do not each have distinct values. These variables are <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>,
<var>grouping-sign</var>, <var>percent-sign</var>, <var>per-mille-sign</var>,
<var>digit-zero-sign</var>, <var>digit-sign</var>, and <var>pattern-separator-sign</var>.
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="processing-picture-string" id="processing-picture-string"/>16.4.2 Processing the Picture String</h4><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-picture-string" id="dt-picture-string" title="picture string"/>The formatting of a
number is controlled by a <b>picture string</b>. The
picture string is a sequence of characters, in which the characters
assigned to the variables <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>, <var>grouping-sign</var>,
<var>zero-digit-sign</var>,
<var>digit-sign</var> and <var>pattern-separator-sign</var> are classified as
active characters, and all other characters (including the <var>percent-sign</var> and
<var>per-mille-sign</var>) are classified as passive characters.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The <var>integer part</var> of the sub-picture is defined as the part that
appears to the left of the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> if there is one, or the entire
sub-picture otherwise. The <var>fractional part</var> of the sub-picture is defined as the part that
appears to the right of the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> if there is one; it is a zero-length
string otherwise.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1310"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1310] </span></a>The
<a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to the following rules.
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the picture string
does not satisfy these rules.
</p><p>Note that in these
rules the words "preceded" and "followed" refer to characters anywhere in the string, they
are not to be read as "immediately preceded" and "immediately followed".</p><ul><li><p>A picture-string consists either of a sub-picture, or of
two sub-pictures separated by a <var>pattern-separator-sign</var>. A picture-string
<span class="verb">must not</span> contain more than one <var>pattern-separator-sign</var>. If the picture-string contains two
sub-pictures, the first is used for positive values and the second for negative values.</p></li><li><p>A sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain more than one <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>.</p></li><li><p>A sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain more than one <var>percent-sign</var> or
<var>per-mille-sign</var>, and it <span class="verb">must not</span> contain one of each.</p></li><li><p>A sub-picture <span class="verb">must</span> contain at least one <var>digit-sign</var> or <var>zero-digit-sign</var>.</p></li><li><p>A sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain a passive character that is preceded by
an active character and that is followed by another active character.</p></li><li><p>A sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain a <var>grouping-separator-sign</var> adjacent to a
<var>decimal-separator-sign</var>.</p></li><li><p>The integer part of a sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain a <var>zero-digit-sign</var> that is followed by
a <var>digit-sign</var>. The fractional part of a sub-picture <span class="verb">must not</span> contain a <var>digit-sign</var>
that is followed by a <var>zero-digit-sign</var>.</p></li></ul><p>The evaluation of the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function
is described below in two phases, an analysis phase and a formatting
phase. The analysis phase takes as its inputs the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
and the variables derived from the relevant <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration,
and produces as its output a number of variables with defined values.
The formatting phase takes as its inputs the number to be formatted
and the variables produced by the analysis phase, and produces as
its output a string containing a formatted representation of the number.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Numbers will always be formatted with the most significant
digit on the left.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="analysing-picture-string" id="analysing-picture-string"/>16.4.3 Analysing the Picture String</h4><p>This phase of the algorithm analyses
the <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a> and the attribute settings of
the <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration, and has the effect
of setting the values of various variables, which are used in the
subsequent formatting phase. These variables are listed below.
Each is shown with its initial setting and its data type.
</p><p>Several variables are associated with each sub-picture. If there are
two sub-pictures, then these rules are applied to one sub-picture to obtain the values
that apply to positive numbers, and to the other to obtain the values that apply
to negative numbers. If there is only one sub-picture, then the values for both cases
are derived from this sub-picture.</p><p>The variables are as follows:</p><ul><li><p>The <var>integer-part-grouping-positions</var> is a sequence of integers
representing the positions of grouping separators within the integer part of the
sub-picture. For each <var>grouping-separator-sign</var> that appears within the
integer part of the sub-picture, this sequence contains an integer that is equal
to the total number of <var>digit-sign</var> and <var>zero-digit-sign</var>
characters that appear within the integer part of the sub-picture and to the right of the
<var>grouping-separator-sign</var>. In addition, if these
<var>integer-part-grouping-positions</var> are at regular intervals (that is, if they
form a sequence <var>N</var>, <var>2N</var>, <var>3N</var>, ...
for some integer value <var>N</var>,
including the case where there is only one
number in the list), then the sequence contains all
integer multiples of <var>N</var> as far as necessary to accommodate the largest
possible number.</p></li><li><p>The <var>minimum-integer-part-size</var> is an integer indicating the minimum number of digits that will
appear to the left of the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>. It is normally set to
the number of <var>zero-digit-sign</var> characters found in the integer part of the sub-picture.
But if the sub-picture contains no <var>zero-digit-sign</var> and no <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>,
it is set to one.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>There is no maximum integer part size. All significant digits in the integer part of the
number will be displayed, even if this exceeds the number of <var>digit-sign</var> and
<var>zero-digit-sign</var> characters in the subpicture.</p></div></li><li><p>The <var>prefix</var> is set to contain all passive characters
in the sub-picture to the left of the leftmost active character.
If the picture string contains only one sub-picture,
the <var>prefix</var>
for the negative sub-picture is set by concatenating the <var>minus-sign</var>
character and the <var>prefix</var> for the positive sub-picture (if any),
in that order.</p></li><li><p>The <var>fractional-part-grouping-positions</var> is a sequence of integers
representing the positions of grouping separators within the fractional part of the
sub-picture. For each <var>grouping-separator-sign</var> that appears within the
fractional part of the sub-picture, this sequence contains an integer that is equal
to the total number of <var>digit-sign</var> and <var>zero-digit-sign</var>
characters that appear within the fractional part of the sub-picture and to the left of the
<var>grouping-separator-sign</var>.</p></li><li><p>The <var>minimum-fractional-part-size</var> is set to the number of
<var>zero-digit-sign</var> characters found in the fractional part of the sub-picture.</p></li><li><p>The <var>maximum-fractional-part-size</var> is set to the total number of
<var>digit-sign</var> and <var>zero-digit-sign</var> characters found
in the fractional part of the sub-picture.</p></li><li><p>The <var>suffix</var> is set to contain all passive characters to the right of the rightmost
active character in the fractional part of the sub-picture.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If there is only one sub-picture, then all variables
for positive numbers and negative numbers will be the same, except for
<var>prefix</var>: the prefix for negative numbers will
be preceded by the <var>minus-sign</var> character.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="formatting-the-number" id="formatting-the-number"/>16.4.4 Formatting the Number</h4><p>This section describes the second phase of processing of the
<a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function. This phase takes as input a number to be formatted
(referred to as the <em>input number</em>), and the variables set up by
analysing the <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declaration and the
<a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>, as described above.
The result of this phase is a string, which forms the return value of
the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function.</p><p>The algorithm for this second stage of processing is as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>If the input number is NaN (not a number), the result is the
specified <var>NaN-symbol</var> (with no
<var>prefix</var> or <var>suffix</var>).</p></li><li><p>In the rules below, the positive sub-picture and its associated variables are used
if the input number is positive, and the negative sub-picture and its associated
variables are used otherwise. Negative zero is taken as negative, positive zero as positive.</p></li><li><p>If the input number is positive or negative infinity, the result is the
concatenation of the appropriate <var>prefix</var>, the <var>infinity-symbol</var>,
and the appropriate <var>suffix</var>.</p></li><li><p>If the sub-picture contains a <var>percent-sign</var>, the number is multiplied
by 100. If the sub-picture contains a <var>per-mille-sign</var>, the number is multiplied by 1000.
The resulting number is referred to below as the <var>adjusted number</var>.</p></li><li><p>The <var>adjusted number</var> is converted (if necessary) to
an <code>xs:decimal</code> value,
using an implementation of <code>xs:decimal</code> that imposes no limits on the
<code>totalDigits</code> or <code>fractionDigits</code> facets. If there are several
such values that
are numerically equal to the <var>adjusted number</var> (bearing in mind that if the
<var>adjusted number</var> is an <code>xs:double</code> or <code>xs:float</code>, the comparison will be done by
converting the decimal value back to an <code>xs:double</code> or <code>xs:float</code>), the one that
is chosen <span class="verb">should</span> be one with the smallest possible number of digits
not counting leading or trailing zeroes (whether significant or insignificant).
For example, 1.0 is preferred to
0.9999999999, and 100000000 is preferred to 100000001. This value is then
rounded so that it uses no more than <code>maximum-fractional-part-size</code> digits in
its fractional part. The <var>rounded number</var> is defined to be the result of
converting the <var>adjusted number</var> to an <code>xs:decimal</code> value, as described above,
and then calling the function <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-round-half-to-even"><code>round-half-to-even</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> with this converted number
as the first argument and the <code>maximum-fractional-part-size</code> as the second
argument, again with no limits on the <code>totalDigits</code> or <code>fractionDigits</code> in the
result.</p></li><li><p>The absolute value of the <var>rounded number</var> is converted to a string in decimal notation,
with no insignificant leading or trailing zeroes, using the
characters implied by the choice of <var>zero-digit-sign</var> to represent the ten decimal digits,
and the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> to separate the integer part and the fractional part.
(The value zero will at this stage be represented by a <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> on its own.)</p></li><li><p>If the number of digits to the left of the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> is less than
<var>minimum-integer-part-size</var>, leading <var>zero-digit-sign</var>
characters are added to pad out to that size.</p></li><li><p>If the number of digits to the right of the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> is less than
<var>minimum-fractional-part-size</var>, trailing <var>zero-digit-sign</var>
characters are added to pad out to that size.</p></li><li><p>For each integer <var>N</var> in the <var>integer-part-grouping-positions</var> list,
a <var>grouping-separator-sign</var> character is inserted into the string immediately
after that digit that appears in the integer part of the number and has <var>N</var> digits
between it and the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>, if there is such a digit.</p></li><li><p>For each integer <var>N</var> in the <var>fractional-part-grouping-positions</var> list,
a <var>grouping-separator-sign</var> character is inserted into the string immediately
before that digit that appears in the fractional part of the number and has <var>N</var> digits
between it and the <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>, if there is such a digit.</p></li><li><p>If there is no <var>decimal-separator-sign</var> in the sub-picture,
or if there are no digits to the right of the
<var>decimal-separator-sign</var> character in the string, then the
<var>decimal-separator-sign</var> character is removed from the string (it will be the rightmost
character in the string).</p></li><li><p>The result of the function is the concatenation of the appropriate <var>prefix</var>, the
string conversion of the number as obtained above, and the appropriate <var>suffix</var>.</p></li></ol></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="format-date" id="format-date"/>16.5 Formatting Dates and Times</h3><p>Three functions are provided to represent dates and times as a string, using the conventions of a selected calendar,
language, and country. Each has two variants.</p><a name="function-format-dateTime" id="function-format-dateTime"/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="5"><code class="function">format-dateTime</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$value</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:dateTime?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$picture</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$language</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$calendar</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$country</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></td></tr></table></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">format-dateTime</code>(<code class="arg">$value</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:dateTime?</code>, <code class="arg">$picture</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></div><a name="function-format-date" id="function-format-date"/><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="5"><code class="function">format-date</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$value</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:date?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$picture</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$language</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$calendar</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$country</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></td></tr></table></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">format-date</code>(<code class="arg">$value</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:date?</code>, <code class="arg">$picture</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></div><a name="function-format-time" id="function-format-time"/><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="5"><code class="function">format-time</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$value</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:time?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$picture</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$language</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$calendar</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$country</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></td></tr></table></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">format-time</code>(<code class="arg">$value</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:time?</code>, <code class="arg">$picture</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string?</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-format-dateTime"><code>format-dateTime</code></a>, <a href="#function-format-date"><code>format-date</code></a>,
and <a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a>
functions format <code>$value</code> as a string using
the picture string specified by the <code>$picture</code> argument,
the calendar specified by the <code>$calendar</code> argument,
the language specified by the <code>$language</code> argument,
and the country specified by the <code>$country</code> argument.
The result of the function is the formatted string representation of the supplied
<code>dateTime</code>, <code>date</code>, or <code>time</code> value.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-date-formatting-function" id="dt-date-formatting-function" title="date formatting function"/>The three
functions <a href="#function-format-date"><code>format-date</code></a>, <a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a>, and
<a href="#function-format-dateTime"><code>format-dateTime</code></a> are referred to collectively as the
<b>date formatting functions</b>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>If <code>$value</code> is the empty sequence, the empty sequence is returned.</p><p>Calling the two-argument form of each of the three functions is equivalent
to calling the five-argument form with each of the last three arguments set to an empty sequence.</p><p>For details of the <code>language</code>, <code>calendar</code>, and
<code>country</code> arguments, see <a href="#lang-cal-country"><i>16.5.2 The Language, Calendar, and Country Arguments</i></a>.</p><p>In general, the use of an invalid <code>picture</code>,
<code>language</code>, <code>calendar</code>, or
<code>country</code> argument is classified as a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable
dynamic error</a>. By contrast,
use of an option in any of these arguments that is valid but not supported by the implementation is
not an error, and in these cases the implementation is required to output the value in a fallback
representation.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="date-picture-string" id="date-picture-string"/>16.5.1 The Picture String</h4><p>The picture consists of a sequence of variable markers and literal substrings.
A substring enclosed in square brackets is interpreted as a variable marker; substrings
not enclosed in square brackets are taken as literal substrings.
The literal substrings are optional and if present are rendered unchanged, including any whitespace.
If an opening or closing square bracket
is required within a literal substring, it <span class="verb">must</span> be doubled.
The variable markers are replaced in the result by strings representing
aspects of the date and/or time to be formatted. These are described in detail below.</p><p>A variable marker consists of a component specifier followed optionally
by one or two presentation modifiers and/or optionally by a width modifier.
Whitespace within a variable marker is ignored.</p><p>The <em>component specifier</em> indicates the component of the date or
time that is required, and takes the following values:</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Specifier</th><th align="left">Meaning</th><th align="left">Default Presentation Modifier</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Y</td><td>year (absolute value)</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">M</td><td>month in year</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">D</td><td>day in month</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">d</td><td>day in year</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">F</td><td>day of week</td><td valign="top">n</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">W</td><td>week in year</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">w</td><td>week in month</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">H</td><td>hour in day (24 hours)</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">h</td><td>hour in half-day (12 hours)</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">P</td><td>am/pm marker</td><td valign="top">n</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">m</td><td>minute in hour</td><td valign="top">01</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">s</td><td>second in minute</td><td valign="top">01</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">f</td><td>fractional seconds</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Z</td><td>timezone as a time offset from UTC, or if an alphabetic
modifier is present the conventional name of a timezone (such as PST)</td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">z</td><td>timezone as a time offset using GMT, for example GMT+1<span> or GMT-05:00. For this component there is a fixed
prefix of <code>GMT</code>, or a localized
variation thereof for the chosen language, and the presentation modifier controls the representation of the
signed time offset that follows.</span></td><td valign="top">1</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">C</td><td>calendar: the name or abbreviation of a calendar name</td><td valign="top">n</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">E</td><td>era: the name of a baseline for the numbering of years, for example
the reign of a monarch</td><td valign="top">n</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1340"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1340] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the syntax of the picture
is incorrect.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1350"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1350] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a component specifier within the picture
refers to components that are not available in the given type of <code>$value</code>,
for example if the picture supplied to the <a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a> refers
to the year, month, or day component.
</p><p>It is not an error to include a timezone component when the supplied
value has no timezone. In these circumstances the timezone component will be ignored.</p><p>The first <em>presentation modifier</em> indicates the style in which the
value of a component is to be represented. Its value may be
either:</p><ul><li><p>any format token permitted in the <code>format</code> string
of the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction (see <a href="#number"><i>12 Numbering</i></a>), indicating
that the value of the component is to be output numerically using the specified number format (for example,
<code>1</code>, <code>01</code>, <code>i</code>, <code>I</code>, <code>w</code>, <code>W</code>,
or <code>Ww</code>) or </p></li><li><p>the format token <code>n</code>, <code>N</code>,
or <code>Nn</code>, indicating that the value of the component is to be output by name,
in lower-case, upper-case, or title-case respectively. Components that can be output by name
include (but are not limited to) months, days of the week, timezones, and eras.
If the processor cannot output these components by name for the chosen calendar and language
then it must use an implementation-defined fallback representation.</p></li></ul><p>If the implementation does not support the use of the requested format token, it <span class="verb">must</span>
use the default presentation modifier for that component.</p><p>If the first presentation modifier is present, then it may optionally be followed by
a second presentation modifier as follows:</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Modifier</th><th align="left">Meaning</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">t</td><td valign="top">traditional numbering. This has the same meaning as
<code>letter-value="traditional"</code> in <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">o</td><td valign="top">ordinal form of a number, for example <code>8th</code> or <code>8º</code>.
The actual representation of the ordinal form of a number
may depend not only on the language, but also on the grammatical context (for example,
in some languages it must agree in gender).</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Although the formatting rules are expressed in terms of the rules
for format tokens in <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>, the formats actually used may be specialized
to the numbering of date components where appropriate. For example, in Italian, it is conventional to
use an ordinal number (<code>primo</code>) for the first day of the month, and cardinal numbers
(<code>due, tre, quattro ...</code>) for the remaining days. A processor may therefore use
this convention to number days of the month, ignoring the presence or absence of the ordinal
presentation modifier.</p></div><p>Whether or not a presentation modifier is included, a width modifier may be supplied. This
indicates the number of characters or digits to be included in the representation of the value.</p><p>The width modifier, if present, is introduced by a comma. It takes the form:</p><p>
<code>   ,  min-width ("-" max-width)?</code>
</p><p>where <code>min-width</code> is either an unsigned integer indicating the minimum number of characters to
be output, or <code>*</code> indicating that there is no explicit minimum, and
<code>max-width</code> is either an unsigned integer indicating the maximum number of characters to
be output, or <code>*</code> indicating that there is no explicit maximum; if <code>max-width</code>
is omitted then <code>*</code> is assumed. Both integers, if present, <span class="verb">must</span> be greater than zero.</p><p>A format token containing leading zeroes, such as <code>001</code>, sets the
minimum and maximum width to the number of digits appearing in the format token; if a width
modifier is also present, then the width modifier takes precedence.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>A format token consisting of a one-digit on its own,
such as <code>1</code>, does not constrain the number of digits in the output.
In the case of fractional seconds in particular, <code>[f001]</code> requests three decimal digits,
<code>[f01]</code> requests two digits, but <code>[f1]</code> will produce an
implementation-defined number of digits.
If exactly one digit is required, this can be achieved using the component specifier
<code>[f1,1-1]</code>.</p></div><p>If the <span>minimum</span> and maximum width are unspecified, then the output uses as
many characters as are required to
represent the value of the component without truncation and without padding: this is referred to below
as the <em>full representation</em> of the value.
<span>For a timezone offset (component
specifier <code>z</code>), the full representation consists of a sign for the offset, the
number of hours of the offset, and if the offset is not an integral number of hours,
a colon (<code>:</code>) followed by the two digits of the minutes of the offset.</span></p><p>If the full representation of the value exceeds the specified maximum width, then the processor
<span class="verb">should</span> attempt to use an alternative shorter representation that fits within
the maximum width. Where the
presentation modifier is <code>N</code>, <code>n</code>, or <code>Nn</code>,
this is done by abbreviating the name,
using either conventional abbreviations if available, or crude right-truncation if not. For example,
setting <code>max-width</code> to <code>4</code> indicates that four-letter abbreviations
<span class="verb">should</span> be
used, though it would be acceptable to use a three-letter abbreviation if this is in conventional use.
(For example, "Tuesday" might be abbreviated to "Tues", and "Friday" to "Fri".)
In the case of the year component, setting <code>max-width</code> requests omission of high-order
digits from the year, for example, if <code>max-width</code> is set to <code>2</code> then the year 2003
will be output as <code>03</code>. In the case of the fractional seconds
component, the value is rounded to the specified size as if by applying the function
<code>round-half-to-even(fractional-seconds, max-width)</code>.
If no mechanism is available for fitting the value within the specified
maximum width (for example, when roman numerals are used), then the value <span class="verb">should</span> be
output in its full representation.</p><p>If the full representation of the value is shorter than the specified minimum width, then the processor
<span class="verb">should</span> pad the value to the specified width.</p><ul><li><p>For decimal representations of
numbers, this <span class="verb">should</span> be done by
prepending zero digits from the appropriate set of digit characters,
or appending zero digits in the case of the fractional
seconds component.</p></li><li><p><span>For timezone offsets this <span class="verb">should</span> be done by first appending
a colon (<code>:</code>) followed by two
zero digits from the appropriate set of digit characters if the full
representation does not already include a minutes component and if
the specified minimum width permits adding three characters,
and then if necessary prepending zero digits from the
appropriate set of digit characters to the hour component.</span></p></li><li><p>In other cases,
it <span class="verb">should</span> be done by appending spaces.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Formatting of timezones is not fully defined by this specification. Some aspects of the formatting
are <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.</p><p>For component specifier "z", the choice between "GMT+2" and "GMT+02:00" is guided by the width specifier,
as indicated above. The string "GMT" may be localized, for example to "UTC". The representation of the UTC
timezone itself (that is, a timezone offset of zero) is not defined in this specification.</p><p>For component specifier "Z" with a numeric presentation modifier, the implementation may optionally
use "Z" rather than "+00:00" to indicate UTC.</p><p>Component specifier "Z" with the presentation modifier "N" is used to request timezone names such as
"PST" or "CET". Translation of a timezone offset into the name of a civil timezone can only be done heuristically.
The implementation may use the <code>$country</code> argument as a guide to the civil timezones to match
against; if <code>$value</code> includes a date then the implementation may also use a database of
daylight-savings-time changes to distinguish two timezone names, such as "EDT" and "AST", that have the same
timezone offset.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="lang-cal-country" id="lang-cal-country"/>16.5.2 The Language, Calendar, and Country Arguments</h4><p>The set of languages, calendars, and countries that are supported in the
<a title="date formatting function" href="#dt-date-formatting-function">date formatting functions</a> is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. When
any of these arguments is omitted or is an empty sequence, an <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
default value is used.</p><p>If the fallback representation uses a different calendar from that requested,
the output string <span class="verb">must</span> identify the calendar actually used, for example by
prefixing the string with <code>[Calendar: X]</code> (where X is the calendar actually used),
localized as appropriate to the
requested language. If the fallback representation uses a different language
from that requested, the output string <span class="verb">must</span> identify the language actually
used, for example by prefixing the string with <code>[Language: Y]</code> (where Y is the language
actually used) localized in an
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a> way.
If a particular component of the value cannot be output in
the requested format, it <span class="verb">should</span> be output in the default format for
that component.</p><p>The <code>language</code> argument specifies the language to be used for the result string
of the function. The value of the argument <span class="verb">must</span> be either the empty sequence
or a value that would be valid for the <code>xml:lang</code> attribute (see [XML]).
Note that this permits the identification of sublanguages
based on country codes (from <a href="#ISO3166">[ISO 3166-1]</a>) as well as identification of dialects
and of regions within a country.</p><p>If the <code>language</code>
argument is omitted or is set to an empty sequence, or if it is set to an invalid value or a
value that the implementation does not recognize,
then the processor uses an <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
language.</p><p>The language is used to select the appropriate language-dependent forms of:</p><blockquote><p>names (for example, of months)<br/>numbers expressed as words or as ordinals (<code>twenty, 20th, twentieth</code>)<br/>hour convention (0-23 vs 1-24, 0-11 vs 1-12)<br/>first day of week, first week of year</p></blockquote><p>Where appropriate this choice may also take into account the value of the
<code>country</code> argument, though this <span class="verb">should</span> not be used to override the
language or any sublanguage that is specified as part of the <code>language</code>
argument.</p><p>The choice of the names and abbreviations used in any given language is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. For example,
one implementation might abbreviate July as <code>Jul</code> while another uses <code>Jly</code>. In German,
one implementation might represent Saturday as <code>Samstag</code> while another
uses <code>Sonnabend</code>. Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> provide mechanisms allowing users to
control such choices.</p><p>Where ordinal numbers are used, the selection of the correct representation of the
ordinal (for example, the linguistic gender) <span class="verb">may</span> depend on the component being formatted and on its
textual context in the picture string.</p><p>The <code>calendar</code> attribute specifies that the <code>dateTime</code>, <code>date</code>,
or <code>time</code> supplied in the <code>$value</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> be
converted to a value in the specified calendar and then converted to a string using the
conventions of that calendar.</p><p>A calendar value <span class="verb">must</span> be a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the QName does not have a prefix,
then it identifies a calendar with the designator specified below.
If the QName has a prefix, then the QName is expanded into an expanded-QName
as described in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>; the expanded-QName identifies the calendar;
the behavior in this case is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>If the calendar attribute is omitted an
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> value is used.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The calendars listed below were known to be in use during the
last hundred years. Many other calendars have been used in the past.</p><p>This specification does not define any of these calendars, nor the way that they
map to the value space of the <code>xs:date</code> data type in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.
There may be ambiguities when dates are recorded using different calendars.
For example, the start of a new day is not simultaneous in different calendars,
and may also vary geographically (for example, based on the time of sunrise or sunset).
Translation of dates is therefore more reliable when the time of day is also known, and
when the geographic location is known.
When translating dates between
one calendar and another, the processor may take account of the values
of the <code>country</code> and/or <code>language</code> arguments, with the <code>country</code>
argument taking precedence.</p><p>Information about some of these calendars, and algorithms for converting between them, may
be found in <a href="#CALCALC">[Calendrical Calculations]</a>.</p></div><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th valign="top" align="left">Designator</th><th valign="top" align="left">Calendar</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>AD</td><td>Anno Domini (Christian Era)</td></tr><tr><td>AH</td><td>Anno Hegirae (Muhammedan Era)</td></tr><tr><td>AME</td><td>Mauludi Era (solar years since Mohammed's birth)</td></tr><tr><td>AM</td><td>Anno Mundi (Jewish Calendar)</td></tr><tr><td>AP</td><td>Anno Persici</td></tr><tr><td>AS</td><td>Aji Saka Era (Java)</td></tr><tr><td>BE</td><td>Buddhist Era</td></tr><tr><td>CB</td><td>Cooch Behar Era</td></tr><tr><td>CE</td><td>Common Era</td></tr><tr><td>CL</td><td>Chinese Lunar Era</td></tr><tr><td>CS</td><td>Chula Sakarat Era</td></tr><tr><td>EE</td><td>Ethiopian Era</td></tr><tr><td>FE</td><td>Fasli Era</td></tr><tr><td>ISO</td><td>ISO 8601 calendar</td></tr><tr><td>JE</td><td>Japanese Calendar</td></tr><tr><td>KE</td><td>Khalsa Era (Sikh calendar)</td></tr><tr><td>KY</td><td>Kali Yuga</td></tr><tr><td>ME</td><td>Malabar Era</td></tr><tr><td>MS</td><td>Monarchic Solar Era</td></tr><tr><td>NS</td><td>Nepal Samwat Era</td></tr><tr><td>OS</td><td>Old Style (Julian Calendar)</td></tr><tr><td>RS</td><td>Rattanakosin (Bangkok) Era</td></tr><tr><td>SE</td><td>Saka Era</td></tr><tr><td>SH</td><td>Mohammedan Solar Era (Iran)</td></tr><tr><td>SS</td><td>Saka Samvat</td></tr><tr><td>TE</td><td>Tripurabda Era</td></tr><tr><td>VE</td><td>Vikrama Era</td></tr><tr><td>VS</td><td>Vikrama Samvat Era</td></tr></tbody></table><p>At least one of the above calendars <span class="verb">must</span> be supported. It is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> which
calendars are supported.</p><p>The ISO 8601 calendar (<a href="#ISO8601">[ISO 8601]</a>),
which is included in the above list and designated <code>ISO</code>,
is very similar to the Gregorian calendar designated <code>AD</code>, but it
differs in several ways. The ISO calendar
is intended to ensure that date and time formats can be read
easily by other software, as well as being legible for human
users. The ISO calendar
prescribes the use of particular numbering conventions as defined in
ISO 8601, rather than allowing these to be localized on a per-language basis.
In particular it
provides a numeric 'week date' format which identifies dates by
year, week of the year, and day in the week;
in the ISO calendar the days of the week are numbered from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday), and
week 1 in any calendar year is the week (from Monday to Sunday) that includes the first Thursday
of that year. The numeric values of the components year, month, day, hour, minute, and second
are the same in the ISO calendar as the values used in the lexical representation of the date and
time as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>. The era ("E" component)
with this calendar is either a minus sign (for negative years) or a zero-length string (for positive years).
For dates before 1 January, AD 1, year numbers in
the ISO and AD calendars are off by one from each other: ISO year
0000 is 1 BC, -0001 is 2 BC, etc.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The value space of the date and time data types, as defined in XML Schema, is based on
absolute points in time. The lexical space of these data types defines a
representation of these absolute points in time using the proleptic Gregorian calendar,
that is, the modern Western calendar extrapolated into the past and the future; but the value space
is calendar-neutral. The
<a title="date formatting function" href="#dt-date-formatting-function">date formatting functions</a> produce a representation
of this absolute point in time, but denoted in a possibly different calendar. So,
for example, the date whose lexical representation in XML Schema is <code>1502-01-11</code>
(the day on which Pope Gregory XIII was born) might be
formatted using the Old Style (Julian) calendar as <code>1 January 1502</code>. This reflects the fact
that there was at that time a ten-day difference between the two calendars. It would be
incorrect, and would produce incorrect results, to represent this date in an element or attribute
of type <code>xs:date</code> as <code>1502-01-01</code>, even though this might reflect the way
the date was recorded in contemporary documents.</p><p>When referring to years occurring in antiquity, modern historians generally
use a numbering system in which there is no year zero (the year before 1 CE
is thus 1 BCE). This is the convention that <span class="verb">should</span> be used when the
requested calendar is OS (Julian) or AD (Gregorian). When the requested
calendar is ISO, however, the conventions of ISO 8601 <span class="verb">should</span> be followed:
here the year before +0001 is numbered zero. In <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a> (version 1.0),
the value space for <code>xs:date</code> and <code>xs:dateTime</code>
does not include a year zero: however, a future edition is
expected to endorse the ISO 8601 convention. This means that the date on
which Julius Caesar was assassinated has the ISO 8601 lexical representation
-0043-03-13, but will be formatted as 15 March 44 BCE in the Julian calendar
or 13 March 44 BCE in the Gregorian calendar (dependant on the chosen
localization of the names of months and eras).</p></div><p>The intended use of the <code>country</code> argument is to identify
the place where an event
represented by the <code>dateTime</code>, <code>date</code>,
or <code>time</code> supplied in the <code>$value</code> argument took place or will take place.
If the value is supplied, and is not the empty sequence, then it <span class="verb">should</span> be a country code
defined in <a href="#ISO3166">[ISO 3166-1]</a>. Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> also allow the use
of codes representing subdivisions of a country from ISO 3166-2, or codes representing formerly used names of
countries from ISO 3166-3.
This argument is not intended to identify the location of the user
for whom the date or time is being formatted;
that should be done by means of the <code>language</code> attribute.
This information
<span class="verb">may</span> be used to provide additional information when converting dates between
calendars or when deciding how individual components of the date and time are to be formatted.
For example, different countries using the Old Style (Julian) calendar started the new year on different
days, and some countries used variants of the calendar that were out of synchronization as a result of
differences in calculating leap years. The geographical area identified by a country code is defined by the
boundaries as they existed at the time of the date to be formatted,
or the present-day boundaries for dates in the future.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="date-time-examples" id="date-time-examples"/>16.5.3 Examples of Date and Time Formatting</h4><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e24983" id="d5e24983"/>Example: Gregorian Calendar</div><p>The following examples show a selection of dates and times and the way they might
be formatted. These examples assume the use of the Gregorian calendar as the default calendar.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Required Output</th><th align="left">Expression</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<code>2002-12-31</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[Y0001]-[M01]-[D01]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>12-31-2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[M]-[D]-[Y]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>31-12-2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[D]-[M]-[Y]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>31 XII 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[D1] [MI] [Y]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>31st December, 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[D1o] [MNn], [Y]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>31 DEC 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[D01] [MN,*-3] [Y0001]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>December 31, 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[MNn] [D], [Y]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>31 Dezember, 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[D] [MNn], [Y]", "de", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>Tisdag 31 December 2002</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[FNn] [D] [MNn] [Y]", "sv", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>[2002-12-31]</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[[[Y0001]-[M01]-[D01]]]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>Two Thousand and Three</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[YWw]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>einunddreißigste Dezember</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-date($d, "[Dwo] [MNn]", "de", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>3:58 PM</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-time($t, "[h]:[m01] [PN]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>3:58:45 pm</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-time($t, "[h]:[m01]:[s01] [Pn]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>3:58:45 PM PDT</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-time($t, "[h]:[m01]:[s01] [PN] [ZN,*-3]", "en", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>3:58:45 o'clock PM PDT</code>
</td><td><code>format-time($t, "[h]:[m01]:[s01] o'clock [PN] [ZN,*-3]", "en", (), ())</code></td></tr><tr><td>
<code>15:58</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-time($t,"[H01]:[m01]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>15:58:45.762</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-time($t,"[H01]:[m01]:[s01].[f001]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>15:58:45 GMT+02:00</code>
</td><td><code>format-time($t,"[H01]:[m01]:[s01] [z,6-6]", "en", (), ())</code></td></tr><tr><td><code>15.58 Uhr GMT+2</code></td><td>
<code>format-time($t,"[H01]:[m01] Uhr [z]", "de", (), ())</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>3.58pm on Tuesday, 31st December</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-dateTime($dt, "[h].[m01][Pn] on [FNn], [D1o] [MNn]")</code>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<code>12/31/2002 at 15:58:45</code>
</td><td>
<code>format-dateTime($dt, "[M01]/[D01]/[Y0001] at [H01]:[m01]:[s01]")</code>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e25239" id="d5e25239"/>Example: Non-Gregorian Calendars</div><p>The following examples use calendars other than the Gregorian calendar.</p><p>These examples use non-Latin characters which might not display
correctly in all browsers, depending on the system configuration.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th align="left">Description</th><th align="left">Request</th><th align="left">Result</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Islamic</td><td valign="top"><code>format-date($d, "[D&amp;#x0661;] [Mn] [Y&amp;#x0661;]", "ar", "AH", ())</code></td><td valign="top">٢٦ ﺸﻭّﺍﻝ ١٤٢٣</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Jewish (with Western numbering)</td><td valign="top">
<code>format-date($d, "[D] [Mn] [Y]", "he", "AM", ())</code>
</td><td valign="top">‏26 טבת 5763</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Jewish (with traditional numbering)</td><td valign="top">
<code>format-date($d, "[D&amp;#x05D0;t] [Mn] [Y&amp;#x05D0;t]", "he", "AM", ())</code>
</td><td valign="top">כ״ו טבת תשס״ג</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Julian (Old Style)</td><td valign="top">
<code>format-date($d, "[D] [MNn] [Y]", "en", "OS", ())</code>
</td><td valign="top">18 December 2002</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Thai</td><td valign="top">
<code>format-date($d, "[D&amp;#x0E51;] [Mn] [Y&amp;#x0E51;]", "th", "BE", ())</code>
</td><td valign="top">๓๑ ธันวาคม
๒๕๔๕</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="misc-func" id="misc-func"/>16.6 Miscellaneous Additional Functions</h3><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="current-function" id="current-function"/>16.6.1 current</h4><a name="function-current" id="function-current"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">current</code>()<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">item()</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function, used within
an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, returns the item that was the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context
item</a> at the point where the expression was invoked from the XSLT <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
This is referred to as the current item.
For an outermost expression (an expression not occurring
within another expression), the current item is always the same as the
context item. Thus,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:value-of select="current()"/&gt;</pre></div><p>means the same as</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;</pre></div><p>However, within square brackets, or on the
right-hand side of the <code>/</code> operator,
the current item is generally
different from the context item.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e25338" id="d5e25338"/>Example: Using the <code>current</code> Function</div><p>For example,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="//glossary/entry[@name=current()/@ref]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>will process all <code>entry</code> elements that have a
<code>glossary</code> parent element and that have a <code>name</code>
attribute with value equal to the value of the current item's
<code>ref</code> attribute. This is different from</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="//glossary/entry[@name=./@ref]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>which means the same as</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="//glossary/entry[@name=@ref]"/&gt;</pre></div><p>and so would process all <code>entry</code> elements that have a
<code>glossary</code> parent element and that have a <code>name</code>
attribute and a <code>ref</code> attribute with the same value.</p></div><p>If the <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function is used within a
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>, its value is the node that is being matched
against the pattern.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1360"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1360] </span></a>If the <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function is evaluated
within an expression that is evaluated when the context item is undefined, a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> occurs.
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="unparsed-entity-uri" id="unparsed-entity-uri"/>16.6.2 unparsed-entity-uri</h4><a name="function-unparsed-entity-uri" id="function-unparsed-entity-uri"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">unparsed-entity-uri</code>(<code class="arg">$entity-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:anyURI</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-uri"><code>unparsed-entity-uri</code></a> function returns the URI of the
unparsed entity whose name is given by the value of the <code>$entity-name</code> argument, in the
document containing the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>. It returns the
zero-length <code>xs:anyURI</code> if there is no such entity.
This function maps to the <code>dm:unparsed-entity-system-id</code>
accessor defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1370"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1370] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-uri"><code>unparsed-entity-uri</code></a> function is called when there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or when the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node.
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="unparsed-entity-public-id" id="unparsed-entity-public-id"/>16.6.3 unparsed-entity-public-id</h4><a name="function-unparsed-entity-public-id" id="function-unparsed-entity-public-id"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">unparsed-entity-public-id</code>(<code class="arg">$entity-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-public-id"><code>unparsed-entity-public-id</code></a> function returns the public identifier of the
unparsed entity whose name is given by the value of the <code>$entity-name</code> argument, in the
document containing the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>. It returns the
zero-length string if there is no such entity, or if the entity
has no public identifier. This function maps to the <code>dm:unparsed-entity-public-id</code>
accessor defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1380"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1380] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-public-id"><code>unparsed-entity-public-id</code></a> function is called
when there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or when the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node.
</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="generate-id" id="generate-id"/>16.6.4 generate-id</h4><a name="function-generate-id" id="function-generate-id"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">generate-id</code>()<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><code class="function">generate-id</code>(<code class="arg">$node</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">node()?</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p>The <a href="#function-generate-id"><code>generate-id</code></a> function returns a string that
uniquely identifies a given node. The unique identifier <span class="verb">must</span> consist of ASCII
alphanumeric characters and <span class="verb">must</span> start with an alphabetic character.
Thus, the string is syntactically an XML name. An implementation is
free to generate an identifier in any convenient way provided that it
always generates the same identifier for the same node and that
different identifiers are always generated from different nodes. An
implementation is under no obligation to generate the same identifiers
each time a document is transformed. There is no guarantee that a
generated unique identifier will be distinct from any unique IDs
specified in the source document. If the argument
is the empty sequence, the result is the zero-length string.
If the argument is omitted, it defaults
to the <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="system-property" id="system-property"/>16.6.5 system-property</h4><a name="function-system-property" id="function-system-property"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">system-property</code>(<code class="arg">$property-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:string</code></div><p>The <code>$property-name</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> evaluate to a
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
The <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a> is expanded as described in
<a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1390"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1390] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the value
is
not a valid QName, or if there is no
namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the QName.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>The <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function returns a string
representing the value of the system property identified by the name.
If there is no such system property, the zero-length string is
returned.</p><p>Implementations <span class="verb">must</span> provide the following system properties, which
are all in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>:</p><ul><li><p>
<code>xsl:version</code>, a number giving the version of XSLT
implemented by the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>; for implementations conforming to the
version of XSLT specified by this document, this is the string
<code>"2.0"</code>. The value will always be a string in the lexical
space of the decimal data type defined in XML Schema (see <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>).
This allows the value to be converted to a number for the purpose
of magnitude comparisons.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:vendor</code>, a string identifying the implementer of the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:vendor-url</code>, a string containing a URL
identifying the implementer of the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>; typically this is the
host page (home page) of the implementer's Web site.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:product-name</code>, a string containing the name
of the implementation, as defined by the implementer. This <span class="verb">should</span> normally
remain constant from one release of the product to the next. It <span class="verb">should</span> also be
constant across platforms in cases where the same source code is used to produce
compatible products for multiple execution platforms.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:product-version</code>, a string identifying the version
of the implementation, as defined by the implementer. This <span class="verb">should</span> normally
vary from one release of the product to the next, and at the discretion
of the implementer it <span class="verb">may</span> also vary across different execution platforms.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:is-schema-aware</code>, returns the string <code>"yes"</code> in
the case of a processor that claims conformance as a <a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware
XSLT processor</a>, or <code>"no"</code> in the case of a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:supports-serialization</code>, returns the string <code>"yes"</code> in
the case of a processor that offers the <a title="serialization feature" href="#dt-serialization-feature">serialization feature</a>,
or <code>"no"</code> otherwise.</p></li><li><p>
<code>xsl:supports-backwards-compatibility</code>, returns the string <code>"yes"</code> in
the case of a processor that offers the
<a title="backwards compatibility feature" href="#dt-backwards-compatibility-feature">backwards compatibility feature</a>,
or <code>"no"</code> otherwise.</p></li></ul><p>In addition, processors <span class="verb">may</span> support the following
system property in the <a title="" href="#">XSLT namespace</a>.
A processor that does not support this property will return a zero-length
string if the property is requested.</p><ul><li><p><code>xsl:supports-namespace-axis</code>, returns the string <code>"yes"</code> in
the case of a processor that offers the XPath namespace axis even when not in backwards
compatible mode, or <code>"no"</code> otherwise. Note that a processor that supports
backwards compatible mode must support the namespace axis when in that mode, so this
property is not relevant to that case.</p></li></ul><p>Some of these properties relate to the conformance levels and features
offered by the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>:
these options are described in <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>.</p><p>The actual values returned for the above properties
are <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>The set of system properties that are supported, in addition
to those listed above, is also <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
Implementations <span class="verb">must not</span> define additional system
properties in the XSLT namespace.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An implementation must not return the value <code>2.0</code>
as the value of the <code>xsl:version</code> system property unless it is
conformant to XSLT 2.0.</p><p>It is recognized that vendors who are enhancing XSLT 1.0 processors may
wish to release interim implementations before all the mandatory features of this
specification are implemented. Since such products are not conformant to XSLT 2.0, this
specification cannot define their behavior. However, implementers of such products are
encouraged to return a value for the <code>xsl:version</code> system property that
is intermediate between 1.0 and 2.0, and to provide the <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> and
<a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> functions to allow users to test which features have
been fully implemented.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="message" id="message"/>17 Messages</h2><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-message"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:message<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  terminate? = { "yes" | "no" }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:message&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction sends a message in
an <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> way.
The <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction causes the creation of a new
document, which is typically serialized and output to an
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
destination. The result of the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction is an empty
sequence.</p><p>The content of the message may be specified by using either or both of the
optional <code>select</code> attribute and the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
that forms the content of the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction.</p><p>If the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction contains a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, then the sequence
obtained by evaluating this sequence constructor is used to construct
the content of the new document node, as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.</p><p>If the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction has a <code>select</code>
attribute, then the value of the attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be an XPath expression.
The effect of the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction is then the same as if
a single <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction with this <code>select</code> attribute
were added to the start of the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>.</p><p>If the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction has no content
and no <code>select</code> attribute, then an empty message is produced.</p><p>The tree produced by the <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction is not technically
a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.
The tree has no URI and processors are not <span class="verb">required</span> to make the tree
accessible to applications.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In many cases, the XML document produced using <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> will
consist of a document node owning a single text node. However, it may contain a more complex
structure.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An implementation might implement <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> by
popping up an alert box or by writing to a log file. Because the order
of execution of instructions is implementation-defined, the order in which such messages appear
is not predictable.</p></div><p>The <code>terminate</code> attribute is interpreted as
an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value
template</a>.</p><p>If the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>terminate</code> attribute is
<code>yes</code>, then the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span>
terminate processing after sending the message. The default value is <code>no</code>.
Note that because the order of evaluation of instructions is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>,
this gives no guarantee that any particular instruction will or
will not be evaluated before processing terminates.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTMM9000"><span class="error">[ERR XTMM9000] </span></a>When
a transformation is terminated by use of <code>xsl:message terminate="yes"</code>, the effect
is the same as when a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> occurs
during the transformation.
</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e25888" id="d5e25888"/>Example: Localizing Messages</div><p>One convenient way to do localization is to put the localized
information (message text, etc.) in an XML document, which becomes an
additional input file to the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>. For example, suppose
messages for a language <code>
<var>L</var>
</code> are stored in an XML
file <code>resources/<var>L</var>.xml</code> in the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;messages&gt;
&lt;message name="problem"&gt;A problem was detected.&lt;/message&gt;
&lt;message name="error"&gt;An error was detected.&lt;/message&gt;
&lt;/messages&gt;
</pre></div><p>Then a stylesheet could use the following approach to localize
messages:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:param name="lang" select="'en'"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:variable name="messages"
select="document(concat('resources/', $lang, '.xml'))/messages"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="localized-message"&gt;
&lt;xsl:param name="name"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:message select="string($messages/message[@name=$name])"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template name="problem"&gt;
&lt;xsl:call-template name="localized-message"&gt;
&lt;xsl:with-param name="name"&gt;problem&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;
&lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>Any <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a> that occurs
while evaluating the <code>select</code> expression or the
contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
and any <a title="serialization error" href="#dt-serialization-error">serialization error</a>
that occurs while
processing the result, is treated as a
<a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable error</a> even if the error
would not be recoverable under other circumstances. The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery
action</a> is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>An example of such an error is the serialization error that occurs when
processing the instruction <code>&lt;xsl:message select="@code"/&gt;</code> (on the grounds that
free-standing attributes cannot be serialized). Making such errors recoverable
means that it is implementation-defined whether or not they are signaled to the
user and whether they cause termination of the transformation. If the processor
chooses to recover from the error, the content of any resulting message is
implementation-dependent.</p><p>One possible recovery action is to include a description of the error in the
generated message text.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="extension" id="extension"/>18 Extensibility and Fallback</h2><p>XSLT allows two kinds of extension, extension instructions and
extension functions.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-extension-instruction" id="dt-extension-instruction" title="extension instruction"/>An
<b>extension instruction</b> is an element within a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that is in
a namespace (not the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>)
designated as an extension namespace.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-extension-function" id="dt-extension-function" title="extension function"/>An
<b>extension function</b> is a function that is available for
use within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, other than a
<a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>, an additional function defined in this
XSLT specification, a constructor function named after an
atomic type, or a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet
function</a> defined using an <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> declaration.<span class="definition">]</span>.
</p><p>This specification does not define any mechanism for creating or binding
implementations of <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>
or <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>, and
it is not <span class="verb">required</span> that implementations support any such mechanism.
Such mechanisms, if they exist, are
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
Therefore, an XSLT stylesheet that <span class="verb">must</span>
be portable between XSLT implementations cannot rely on particular
extensions being available. XSLT provides mechanisms that allow an
XSLT stylesheet to determine whether the implementation makes particular extensions
available, and to specify what happens if those extensions are
not available. If an XSLT stylesheet is careful to make use of these
mechanisms, it is possible for it to take advantage of extensions and
still retain portability.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="extension-functions" id="extension-functions"/>18.1 Extension Functions</h3><p>The set of functions that can be called from
a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-FunctionCall">FunctionCall</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> may include
one or more <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>.
The <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of an extension function
always has a non-null namespace URI.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="testing-function-availability" id="testing-function-availability"/>18.1.1 Testing Availability of Functions</h4><p>The <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function
can be used with the
<code>[xsl:]use-when</code> attribute (see <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>) to
explicitly control how a stylesheet behaves if a particular
extension function is not available.</p><a name="function-function-available" id="function-function-available"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">function-available</code>(<code class="arg">$function-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></div><p/><div class="proto"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="baseline" rowspan="2"><code class="function">function-available</code>(</td><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$function-name</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>,</td></tr><tr><td valign="baseline"><code class="arg">$arity</code></td><td valign="baseline"><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:integer</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></td></tr></table></div><p>A function is said to be available within an XPath expression if it is present in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-function-signature">in-scope functions</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup> for that expression
(see <a href="#static-context"><i>5.4.1 Initializing the Static Context</i></a>). Functions in the static context are uniquely identified
by the name of the function (a QName) in combination with its <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a>.</p><p>The value of the <code>$function-name</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> be a string containing
a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
The lexical QName is expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> using the
namespace declarations in scope for the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.
If the lexical QName is unprefixed, then the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a>
is used in the expanded QName.</p><p>The two-argument version of the
<a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function
returns true if and only if there is an available function whose name matches the value of the <code>$function-name</code> argument
and whose <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a> matches the value of the <code>$arity</code> argument. </p><p>The single-argument version of the
<a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function
returns true if and only if there is at least one available function (with some arity)
whose name matches the value of the <code>$function-name</code> argument. </p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1400"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1400] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the argument
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>When <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled, the <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function
returns false in respect of a function name and arity for which no implementation is available
(other than the fallback error function that raises a
dynamic error whenever it is called). This means that it is possible (as in XSLT
1.0) to use logic such as the following to test whether a function is
available before calling it:</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e26131" id="d5e26131"/>Example: Calling an extension function with backwards-compatibility enabled</div><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;summary xsl:version="1.0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="function-available('my:summary')"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="my:summary()"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:text&gt;Summary not available&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/summary&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The fact that a function with a given name is available
gives no guarantee that any particular call on the function will be successful. For example,
it is not possible to determine the types of the arguments expected.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In XSLT 2.0 (without backwards compatibility enabled)
a static error occurs when an XPath expression
references a function that is not available. This is true even in a part of the stylesheet
that uses <a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>.
Therefore, the conditional logic to test whether a function is
available before calling it should normally be written in a <code>use-when</code> attribute (see
<a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>).</p></div><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e26151" id="d5e26151"/>Example: Stylesheet portable between XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0</div><p>A stylesheet that is designed to use XSLT 2.0 facilities when they are available, but to fall back
to XSLT 1.0 capabilities when not, might be written using the code:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;out xsl:version="2.0"&gt;
&lt;xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;xsl:when test="function-available('matches')"&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="matches($input, '[a-z]*')"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="string-length(
translate($in, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '')) = 0"/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
&lt;/out&gt;</pre></div><p>Here an XSLT 2.0 processor will always take the <a href="#element-when"><code>xsl:when</code></a> branch,
while a 1.0 processor will follow the <a href="#element-otherwise"><code>xsl:otherwise</code></a> branch.
The single-argument version of the <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function is used
here, because that is the only version available in XSLT 1.0. Under the rules of XSLT 1.0, the call on
the <code>matches</code> function is not an error, because it is never evaluated.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e26172" id="d5e26172"/>Example: Stylesheet portable between XSLT 2.0 and a future version of XSLT</div><p>A stylesheet that is designed to use facilities in some future XSLT version when they are available, but to fall back
to XSLT 2.0 capabilities when not, might be written using code such as the following. This hypothesizes the availability
in some future version of a function <code>pad</code> which pads a string to a fixed
length with spaces:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;xsl:value-of select="pad($input, 10)"
use-when="function-available('pad', 2)"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:value-of select="concat($input, string-join(
for $i in 1 to 10 - string-length($input)
return ' ', ''))"
use-when="not(function-available('pad', 2))"/&gt;
</pre></div><p>In this case the two-argument version of <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> is used, because there
is no requirement for this code to run under XSLT 1.0.</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="calling-extension-functions" id="calling-extension-functions"/>18.1.2 Calling Extension Functions</h4><p>If the function name used in a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-FunctionCall">FunctionCall</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> identifies an
extension function, then to evaluate the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-FunctionCall">FunctionCall</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>, the processor
will first evaluate each of the arguments in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-FunctionCall">FunctionCall</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. If the
processor has information about the data types expected by the extension function,
then it <span class="verb">may</span> perform any necessary type conversions between the XPath data types and
those defined by the implementation language. If multiple extension functions are
available with the same name, the processor <span class="verb">may</span> decide which one to invoke based on
the number of arguments, the types of the arguments, or any other criteria.
The result returned by the implementation
is returned as the result of the function call, again after any necessary conversions
between the data types of the implementation language and those of XPath. The details
of such type conversions are outside the scope of this specification.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1420"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1420] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the arguments supplied to a call on an extension function do
not satisfy the rules defined for that particular extension function, or if the
extension function reports an error, or if the result of the extension function
cannot be converted to an XPath value.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Implementations may also provide mechanisms allowing extension
functions to report
recoverable dynamic errors, or to execute within an environment that treats some or all
of the errors listed above as recoverable.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1425"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1425] </span></a>When
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> to evaluate an extension function call if no implementation
of the extension function is available.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When backwards-compatible behavior is not enabled,
this is a static error [XPST0017].</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>There is no prohibition on calling extension functions that
have side-effects (for example, an extension function that writes data to a file). However,
the order of execution of XSLT instructions is not defined in this specification, so the
effects of such functions are unpredictable.</p></div><p>Implementations are not <span class="verb">required</span> to perform full validation
of values returned by extension functions. It is an error for
an extension function to return a string containing characters that are not permitted
in XML, but the consequences of this error are
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. The implementation
<span class="verb">may</span> raise an error, <span class="verb">may</span> convert the string to a string containing valid characters only, or <span class="verb">may</span>
treat the invalid characters as if they were permitted characters.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The ability to execute extension functions represents a
potential security weakness, since untrusted stylesheets may invoke code that has
privileged access to resources on the machine where the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> executes.
Implementations may therefore provide mechanisms that restrict the use of
extension functions by untrusted stylesheets.</p></div><p>All observations in this section regarding the errors that can occur
when invoking extension functions apply equally when invoking
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="external-objects" id="external-objects"/>18.1.3 External Objects</h4><p>An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> allow an extension function to return
an object that does not have any natural representation in the XDM data model,
either as an atomic value or as a node. For example, an extension function <code>sql:connect</code> might
return an object that represents a connection to a relational database; the resulting
connection object might be passed as an argument to calls on other extension functions
such as <code>sql:insert</code> and <code>sql:select</code>.</p><p>The way in which such objects are represented in the type
system is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
They might be represented by a completely new data type, or they might be mapped to existing
data types such as <code>integer</code>, <code>string</code>, or <code>anyURI</code>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="testing-type-availability" id="testing-type-availability"/>18.1.4 Testing Availability of Types</h4><p>The <a href="#function-type-available"><code>type-available</code></a> function
can be used to control how a stylesheet behaves if a particular
schema type is not available in the static context.</p><a name="function-type-available" id="function-type-available"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">type-available</code>(<code class="arg">$type-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></div><p>A schema type (that is, a simple type or a complex type) is said to be
available within an XPath expression if it is a type definition that is present
in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-is-types">in-scope schema types</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
for that expression (see <a href="#static-context"><i>5.4.1 Initializing the Static Context</i></a>). This includes built-in types, types imported using
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>, and extension types defined by the
implementation.</p><p>The value of the <code>$type-name</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> be a string containing
a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
The lexical QName is expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> using the
namespace declarations in scope for the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.
If the lexical QName is unprefixed, then the
default namespace is used in the expanded QName.</p><p>The function
returns true if and only if there is an available type whose name matches the value of the
<code>$type-name</code> argument. </p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1428"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1428] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the argument
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <a href="#function-type-available"><code>type-available</code></a> function
is of limited use within an <code>[xsl:]use-when</code> expression, because the
static context for the expression does not include any user-defined types.</p></div></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="extension-instruction" id="extension-instruction"/>18.2 Extension Instructions</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-extension-namespace" id="dt-extension-namespace" title="extension namespace"/>The
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> mechanism allows namespaces to be designated as
<b>extension namespaces</b>. When a namespace is designated as
an extension namespace and an element with a name from that namespace
occurs in a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
then the element is treated as an <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a>
rather than as a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.<span class="definition">]</span> The namespace
determines the semantics of the instruction.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Since an element that is a child of an
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element is not occurring <em>in a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
</em>,
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>
(see <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>) are not extension
elements as defined here, and nothing in this section applies to
them.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="designating-extension-namespace" id="designating-extension-namespace"/>18.2.1 Designating an Extension Namespace</h4><p>A namespace is designated as an extension namespace by using an
<code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> attribute on an
element in the stylesheet (see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>).
The attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be in the XSLT namespace
only if its parent element is <em>not</em> in the XSLT namespace.
The value of the attribute is a
whitespace-separated list of namespace prefixes. The namespace bound
to each of the prefixes is designated as an extension namespace.</p><p>The default namespace (as declared by <code>xmlns</code>) may be designated as an
extension namespace by including <code>#default</code> in the list of
namespace prefixes.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1430"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1430] </span></a>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if there is no namespace bound to the prefix on the
element bearing the <code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> attribute
or, when <code>#default</code> is specified,
if there is no default namespace.
</p><p>The designation of a namespace as an extension
namespace is effective for
the element bearing the <code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> attribute
and for all descendants of that element within the same stylesheet module.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="testing-instruction-available" id="testing-instruction-available"/>18.2.2 Testing Availability of Instructions</h4><p>The <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> function can be used with the
<a href="#element-choose"><code>xsl:choose</code></a> and <a href="#element-if"><code>xsl:if</code></a> instructions, or with the
<code>[xsl:]use-when</code> attribute (see <a href="#conditional-inclusion"><i>3.12 Conditional Element Inclusion</i></a>) to
explicitly control how a stylesheet behaves when a particular
XSLT instruction or extension instruction is (or is not) available.</p><a name="function-element-available" id="function-element-available"/><div class="proto"><code class="function">element-available</code>(<code class="arg">$element-name</code><code class="as"> as </code><code class="type">xs:string</code>)<code class="as"> as </code><code class="return-type">xs:boolean</code></div><p>The value of the <code>$element-name</code> argument <span class="verb">must</span> be a string containing a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
The <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> is expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> using the
namespace declarations in scope for the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>. If there is a default namespace in scope,
then it is used to expand an unprefixed <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>. The
<a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> function returns true if and
only if the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> is the name of an <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a>. If the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> has a namespace URI equal to
the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> URI,
then it refers to an element defined by XSLT. Otherwise, it refers to
an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>. If the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> has a null namespace URI,
the <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> function will return
false.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1440"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1440] </span></a>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
argument
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><p>If the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
is in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>, the function returns true if
and only if the expanded QName is the name of an <a title="XSLT instruction" href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a>,
that is,
an <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a> whose syntax summary in this specification
classifies it as
an <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Although the result of applying this function to a name in the
XSLT namespace when using a conformant
XSLT 2.0 processor is entirely predictable, the function is useful in cases
where the stylesheet might be executing under a processor that implements some
other version of XSLT with different rules.</p></div><p>If the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
is not in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>, the function returns true
if and only if the processor has an implementation available of an
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>
with the given expanded QName. This applies whether or not the
namespace has been designated as an <a title="extension namespace" href="#dt-extension-namespace">extension namespace</a>.</p><p>If the processor does not have an implementation of a particular extension
instruction available, and such an extension instruction is evaluated, then the
processor <span class="verb">must</span> perform fallback for the element as specified in <a href="#fallback"><i>18.2.3 Fallback</i></a>.
An implementation <span class="verb">must not</span> signal an error merely because the
stylesheet contains an extension instruction for which no implementation is
available.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="fallback" id="fallback"/>18.2.3 Fallback</h4><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-fallback"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:fallback&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:fallback&gt;</code></p><p>The content of an <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> element is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
and when performing fallback, the value
returned by the <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> element
is the result of evaluating this sequence constructor.</p><p>When not performing fallback, evaluating an <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> element returns
an empty sequence: the content of the <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> element is ignored.</p><p>There are two situations where a
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> performs fallback: when an
extension instruction that is not available is evaluated, and when an instruction
in the XSLT namespace, that is not defined in XSLT 2.0, is evaluated within a
region of the stylesheet for which <a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards
compatible behavior</a> is enabled.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Fallback processing is not invoked in other situations, for example
it is not invoked when an XPath expression uses unrecognized syntax or
contains a call to an unknown function. To handle such situations dynamically, the stylesheet should
call functions such as
<a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> and <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> to decide what
capabilities are available.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1450"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1450] </span></a>When a
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> performs fallback for an
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> that is not recognized,
if the instruction element has one or more
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children, then the content of each of the
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children <span class="verb">must</span> be evaluated; it is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if it has no <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This is different from the situation with unrecognized
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT elements</a>. As explained
in <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>, an unrecognized XSLT element appearing within a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> is a static
error unless (a) <a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a>
is enabled, and (b) the instruction has an <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> child.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="result-trees" id="result-trees"/>19 Final Result Trees</h2><p>The output of a transformation is a set of one or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>.</p><p>A <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
can be created explicitly, by evaluating an
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction.
As explained in <a href="#executing-a-transformation"><i>2.4 Executing a Transformation</i></a>,
a final result tree is also created implicitly if no
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction is evaluated, or if the
result of evaluating the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a> is a non-empty sequence.
</p><p>The way in which a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is delivered to an application
is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.</p><p>Serialization of <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
is described further in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>
</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="creating-result-trees" id="creating-result-trees"/>19.1 Creating Final Result Trees</h3><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-result-document"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: instruction --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:result-document<br/>  format? = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  href? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  method? = { "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var> }<br/>  byte-order-mark? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  cdata-section-elements? = { <var>qnames</var> }<br/>  doctype-public? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  doctype-system? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  encoding? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  escape-uri-attributes? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  include-content-type? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  indent? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  media-type? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  normalization-form? = { "NFC" | "NFD" | "NFKC" | "NFKD" | "fully-normalized" | "none" | <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  omit-xml-declaration? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  standalone? = { "yes" | "no" | "omit" }<br/>  undeclare-prefixes? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  output-version? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction is used to create a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>. The content of the
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element is a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
for the children of the document node of the tree.
A document node is created, and
the sequence obtained by evaluating the sequence constructor is used to construct
the content of the document, as described in <a href="#constructing-complex-content"><i>5.7.1 Constructing Complex Content</i></a>.
The tree rooted at this document node forms the final result tree.</p><p>The <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction defines the URI
of the result
tree, and may optionally specify the output format to be used for serializing this tree.</p><p>The <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>format</code> attribute, if specified, <span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
The QName is expanded using the namespace declarations in scope for the
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element.
The <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> match the expanded
QName of a named <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
This identifies
the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration that will control the serialization of the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
(see <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>), if the result tree is serialized. If the
<code>format</code> attribute is omitted, the unnamed
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>
is used to control serialization of the result tree.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1460"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1460] </span></a>It is
a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>format</code> attribute
is not a valid <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>,
or if it does not match the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of an
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the <code>format</code> attribute
contains no curly brackets), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The only way to select the unnamed <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>
is to omit the <code>format</code> attribute.</p></div><p>The attributes <code>method</code>,
<code>byte-order-mark</code>
<code>cdata-section-elements</code>,
<code>doctype-public</code>,
<code>doctype-system</code>,
<code>encoding</code>,
<code>escape-uri-attributes</code>,
<code>indent</code>,
<code>media-type</code>,
<code>normalization-form</code>,
<code>omit-xml-declaration</code>,
<code>standalone</code>,
<code>undeclare-prefixes</code>,
<code>use-character-maps</code>, and
<code>output-version</code> may be used to override attributes defined in the selected
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>.</p><p>With the exception of <code>use-character-maps</code>, these attributes
are all defined as <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value templates</a>,
so their values may be set dynamically. For any of these attributes
that is present on the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction, the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the attribute overrides
or supplements the corresponding value from the output definition. This works in the same way
as when one <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration overrides another:</p><ul><li><p>In the case of <code>cdata-section-elements</code>, the value of the
serialization parameter is the union of the expanded names of the elements named in this instruction and the
elements named in the selected output definition;</p></li><li><p>In the case of <code>use-character-maps</code>, the character maps referenced in
this instruction supplement and take precedence over those defined in the selected output
definition;</p></li><li><p>In all other cases, the effective value of an attribute actually present on this
instruction takes precedence over the value defined in the selected output definition.</p></li></ul><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>In the case of the attributes <code>method</code>, <code>cdata-section-elements</code>,
and <code>use-character-maps</code>,
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the attribute contains
one or more lexical QNames. The prefix in such a QName is expanded using the
in-scope namespaces for the <code>xsl:result-document</code> element. In the case of
<code>cdata-section-elements</code>, an unprefixed element name is expanded using the default
namespace.</p><p>In the case of the attributes <code>doctype-system</code> and <code>doctype-public</code>, setting the effective value of the
attribute to a zero-length string has the effect of overriding any value for these attributes obtained from the output definition.
The corresponding serialization parameter is not set (is "absent").</p></div><p>The <code>output-version</code> attribute
on the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction overrides the <code>version</code>
attribute on <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> (it has been renamed because <code>version</code>
is available with a different meaning as a standard attribute:
see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>). In all other cases, attributes correspond if
they have the same name.</p><p>There are some serialization parameters that apply to some output methods but not to
others. For example, the <code>indent</code> attribute has no effect on the <code>text</code> output method.
If a value is supplied for an attribute that is inapplicable to the output method, its value is
not passed to the serializer.
The processor <span class="verb">may</span> validate the value of such an attribute, but is not <span class="verb">required</span>
to do so.</p><p>The <code>href</code> attribute is
optional. The default value is the zero-length string.
The <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the attribute <span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="URI Reference" href="#dt-uri-reference">URI Reference</a>, which may be absolute or relative.
There <span class="verb">may</span> be <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
restrictions on the form of absolute URI
that may be used, but the implementation is not <span class="verb">required</span> to enforce any restrictions.
Any legal relative URI <span class="verb">must</span> be accepted. Note that the zero-length string
is a legal relative URI.</p><p>The base URI of the document node at the root of the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
is based on the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>href</code> attribute.
If the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> is a relative URI, then
it is resolved relative to the <a title="base output URI" href="#dt-base-output-uri">base output URI</a>.
If the implementation provides an API to access final result
trees, then it <span class="verb">must</span> allow a final result tree to be identified by means of this base URI.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The base URI of the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is not
necessarily the same thing as the URI of its serialized representation on disk, if any.
For example, a server (or browser client) might store final result trees only in memory, or
in an internal disk cache.
As long as the processor
satisfies requests for those URIs, it is irrelevant where they are actually written
on disk, if at all.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It will often be the case that one <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
contains links to another final result tree produced
during the same transformation, in the form of a relative URI. The mechanism of associating a URI with
a final result tree has been chosen to allow the integrity of such links to be preserved when the
trees are serialized.</p><p>As well as being potentially significant in any API that provides access to final
result trees, the base URI of the new document node is relevant if the final result tree, rather than
being serialized, is supplied as input to a further transformation.</p></div><p>The optional attributes <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> may
be used on the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction to validate the contents of the new document, and to
determine the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> that elements and attributes within the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> will carry.
The permitted values and their semantics are described in
<a href="#validating-document-nodes"><i>19.2.2 Validating Document Nodes</i></a>.</p><p>A <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">may</span> allow a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> to be serialized.
Serialization is described in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>.
However, an implementation (for example,
a <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> running in an environment with no access
to writable filestore) is not <span class="verb">required</span> to
support the serialization of <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>.
An implementation that does not support
the serialization of final result trees <span class="verb">may</span> ignore the <code>format</code> attribute
and the serialization attributes.
Such an implementation
<span class="verb">must</span> provide the application with some means of access to the (un-serialized) result tree,
using its URI to identify it.</p><p>Implementations may provide additional mechanisms, outside the scope
of this specification, for defining the way in which
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> are processed. Such mechanisms
<span class="verb">may</span> make use of the XSLT-defined attributes on the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> and/or
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> elements, or they <span class="verb">may</span> use additional elements or attributes in
an <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> namespace.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e27250" id="d5e27250"/>Example: Multiple Result Documents</div><p>
The following example takes an XHTML document as input, and breaks it up so that the text
following each &lt;h1&gt; element is included in a separate document. A new document <code>toc.html</code>
is constructed to act as an index:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;xsl:output name="toc-format" method="xhtml" indent="yes"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:output name="section-format" method="xhtml" indent="no"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;xsl:result-document href="toc.html" format="toc-format" validation="strict"&gt;
&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each select="/*/xhtml:body/(*[1] | xhtml:h1)"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="section{position()}.html"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;
&lt;xsl:for-each-group select="/*/xhtml:body/*" group-starting-with="xhtml:h1"&gt;
&lt;xsl:result-document href="section{position()}.html"
format="section-format" validation="strip"&gt;
&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;
&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</pre></div></div><p>There are restrictions on the use of the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, designed to ensure that the results are fully interoperable even when processors
optimize the sequence in which instructions are evaluated. Informally, the restriction is that
the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction can only be used while writing a final result
tree, not while writing to a temporary tree or a sequence. This restriction is defined formally as follows.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-output-state" id="dt-output-state" title="output state"/>Each instruction
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is evaluated in one of two possible <b>output states</b>:
<a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a> or
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>
<span class="definition">]</span>.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-final-output-state" id="dt-final-output-state" title="final output state"/>The first of the two
<a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output states</a>
is called <b>final output</b> state. This state applies when
instructions are writing to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-temporary-output-state" id="dt-temporary-output-state" title="temporary output state"/>The second of the two
<a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output states</a>
is called <b>temporary output</b> state. This state applies when
instructions are writing to a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>
or any other non-final destination.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>The instructions in the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a>
are evaluated in <a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a>.
An instruction is evaluated in the same <a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output state</a>
as its calling instruction, except that <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a>, <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>,
<a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a>, <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>, <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>,
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>,
<a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>, <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a>, <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>,
and <a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> always evaluate the instructions in their contained
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> in
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1480"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1480] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> to evaluate the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction in
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1490"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1490] </span></a>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> for a transformation to generate two or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> with the same URI.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Note, this means that it is an error to evaluate more than one <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction that omits the <code>href</code> attribute, or to evaluate any <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction that omits the <code>href</code> attribute if an initial
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is created implicitly.</p></div><p>Technically, the result of evaluating the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction is an empty sequence. This means it does not contribute any nodes to
the result of the sequence constructor it is part of.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE1495"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE1495] </span></a>It
is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic
error</a> for a transformation to generate two or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
with URIs that identify the same physical resource. The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a>
is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>,
since it may be impossible for the processor to detect the error.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE1500"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE1500] </span></a>It is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
for a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to write to an external resource and read from the same resource during a single
transformation, whether or not the same URI is used to access the resource in both cases. The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>:
implementations are not <span class="verb">required</span> to detect the error condition.
Note that if the error is not detected, it is undefined whether the document that is read from the resource
reflects its state before or after the result tree is written.
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="validation" id="validation"/>19.2 Validation</h3><p>It is possible to control the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> applied to individual element and
attribute nodes as they are constructed.
This is done using the <code>type</code> and <code>validation</code> attributes of
the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, and <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instructions,
or the <code>xsl:type</code> and <code>xsl:validation</code> attributes of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p><p>The <code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute is used to request validation
of an element or attribute against a specific simple or complex type defined in a schema.
The <code>[xsl:]validation</code>
attribute is used to request validation against the global element or attribute declaration
whose name matches the name of the element or attribute being validated.</p><p>The <code>[xsl:]type</code> and <code>[xsl:]validation</code> attributes are mutually
exclusive. Both are optional, but if one is present then the other <span class="verb">must</span> be omitted. If both
attributes are omitted, the effect is the same as specifying the <code>validation</code> attribute
with the value specified in the <code>default-validation</code> attribute of the containing
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element; if this is not specified, the effect is the same as
specifying <code>validation="strip"</code>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1505"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1505] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if both the
<code>[xsl:]type</code> and <code>[xsl:]validation</code> attributes are present on
the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instructions,
or on a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.
</p><p>The detailed rules for validation vary depending on the kind of node being
validated. The rules for element and attribute nodes are given in <a href="#validating-constructed-nodes"><i>19.2.1 Validating Constructed Elements and Attributes</i></a>,
while those for document nodes are given in <a href="#validating-document-nodes"><i>19.2.2 Validating Document Nodes</i></a>.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="validating-constructed-nodes" id="validating-constructed-nodes"/>19.2.1 Validating Constructed Elements and Attributes</h4><div class="div4">
<h5><a name="validating-using-validation-attribute" id="validating-using-validation-attribute"/>19.2.1.1 Validation using the <code>[xsl:]validation</code> Attribute</h5><p>The <code>[xsl:]validation</code> attribute defines the validation action to be taken. It determines not only
the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> of the node that is constructed by the relevant instruction
itself, but also the type annotations of all element and attribute nodes that have the constructed
node as an ancestor. Conceptually, the validation requested for a child element or attribute node is
applied before the validation requested for its parent element. For example, if the instruction that
constructs a child element specifies <code>validation="strict"</code>, this will cause the
child element to be checked against an element declaration,
but if the instruction that constructs its parent element specifies <code>validation="strip"</code>,
then the final effect will be that the child node is annotated as
<code>xs:untyped</code>.</p><p>In the paragraphs below, the term <em>contained nodes</em> means the elements and attributes
that have the newly constructed node as an ancestor.</p><ul><li><p>The value <code>strip</code> indicates that the new node and each of the contained nodes
will have the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
<code>xs:untyped</code>
if it is an element, or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>
if it is an attribute. Any previous type annotation present on a contained element or attribute node
(for example, a type annotation that is present on an element copied from a source document)
is also replaced by <code>xs:untyped</code>
or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> as appropriate.
The typed value of the node is changed to be the same as its string value,
as an instance of <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>. In the case of elements the <code>nilled</code> property
is set to <code>false</code>. The values of the <code>is-id</code> and <code>is-idrefs</code> properties
are unchanged. Schema validation is not invoked.</p></li><li><p>The value <code>preserve</code> indicates that nodes that are copied will
retain their <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>, but nodes whose content is newly constructed will be
annotated as <code>xs:anyType</code> in the case of
elements, or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>
in the case of attributes. Schema validation is not invoked.
The detailed effect depends on the instruction:</p><ul><li><p>In the case of <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> and literal result elements,
the new element has a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
of <code>xs:anyType</code>, and the type
annotations of contained nodes are retained unchanged.</p></li><li><p>In the case of <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, the effect is exactly the
same as specifying <code>validation="strip"</code>: that is, the new attribute will
have the type annotation <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p></li><li><p>In the case of <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, all the nodes that are copied
will retain their type annotations unchanged.</p></li><li><p>In the case of <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, the effect depends on the kind of
node being copied.</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>Where the node being copied is an attribute, the copied attribute will retain its
<a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>.</p></li><li><p>Where the node being copied is an element, the copied element will have a
<a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> of <code>xs:anyType</code>
(because this instruction does not copy the
content of the element, it would be wrong to assume that the type is unchanged);
but any contained nodes will have their type annotations retained
in the same way as with <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>.</p></li></ol></li></ul></li><li><p>The value <code>strict</code> indicates that <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> are
established by performing strict schema validity assessment on the element or attribute
node created by this instruction as follows:</p><ul><li><p>In the case of an element, a top-level
element declaration is identified
whose local name and namespace (if any) match the name of the element,
and schema-validity assessment is carried out
according to the rules defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
(section 3.3.4 "Element Declaration Validation Rules", validation rule
"Schema-Validity Assessment (Element)", clauses 1.1 and 2,
using the top-level element declaration as the "declaration stipulated by the processor", which is mentioned
in clause 1.1.1.1).
The element is considered valid if the result of the
schema validity assessment is a PSVI in which the relevant element node has a <code>validity</code>
property whose value is <code>valid</code>. If there is no matching
element declaration, or if the element is not considered
valid, the transformation fails <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTTE1510">ERR XTTE1510</a>]</span>, <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTTE1512">ERR XTTE1512</a>]</span>.
In effect this means that the element
being validated <span class="verb">must</span> be declared using a top-level declaration in the schema, and
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to its declaration. The process of validation
applies recursively to contained elements and attributes to the extent
required by the schema definition.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>It is not an error if the identified type definition is a simple type,
although <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a> does not define explicitly that this case is permitted.</p></div></li><li><p>In the case of an attribute, a top-level
attribute declaration is identified
whose local name and namespace (if any) match the name of the attribute,
and schema-validity assessment is carried out
according to the rules defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
(section
3.2.4 "Attribute Declaration Validation Rules", validation rule
"Schema-Validity Assessment (Attribute)").
The attribute is considered valid if the result of the
schema validity assessment is a PSVI in which the relevant attribute node has a <code>validity</code>
property whose value is <code>valid</code>. If the attribute is not considered
valid, the transformation fails <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTTE1510">ERR XTTE1510</a>]</span>.
In effect this means that the attribute
being validated <span class="verb">must</span> be declared using a top-level declaration in the schema, and
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to its declaration.</p></li><li><p>The schema components used to validate an element or attribute may
be located in any way described by <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a> (see section 4.3.2,
<em>How schema documents are located on the Web</em>). The components in the schema
constructed from the synthetic schema document (see <a href="#import-schema"><i>3.14 Importing Schema Components</i></a>) will
always be available for validating constructed nodes; if additional schema components are
needed, they <span class="verb">may</span> be located in other ways,
for example implicitly from knowledge
of the namespace in which the elements and attributes appear,
or using the <code>xsi:schemaLocation</code> attribute of elements within the
tree being validated.</p></li><li><p>If no validation is performed for a node, which can happen when the schema
specifies <code>lax</code> or
<code>skip</code> validation for that node or for a subtree, then the node is annotated as
<code>xs:anyType</code> in the case
of an element, and <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> in the case of an attribute.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>The value <code>lax</code> has the same effect as the value
<code>strict</code>, except that whereas <code>strict</code> validation fails
if there is no matching top-level element declaration or
if the outcome of validity assessment is a <code>validity</code> property of <code>invalid</code>
or <code>notKnown</code>,
<code>lax</code> validation fails only if
the outcome of validity assessment is a <code>validity</code> property of <code>invalid</code>.
That is, <code>lax</code> validation does not cause a type error when the outcome is
<code>notKnown</code>.</p><p>In practice this means that the element or
attribute being validated <span class="verb">must</span> conform to its declaration if a top-level declaration
is available. If no such declaration is available, then
the element or attribute is not validated, but its attributes and children are validated, again
with lax validation. Any nodes whose validation outcome is a <code>validity</code> property
of <code>notKnown</code> are annotated as <code>xs:anyType</code>
in the case
of an element, and <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> in the case of an attribute.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When the parent element lacks a declaration, the XML Schema
specification defines the recursive checking of children and attributes as optional.
For this specification, this recursive checking is required.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>If an element that is being validated has an <code>xsi:type</code> attribute,
then the value of the <code>xsi:type</code> attribute will be taken into account when performing the
validation. However, the presence of an <code>xsi:type</code> attribute will not of itself cause an element
to be validated: if validation against a named type is required, as distinct from validation against a top-level
element declaration, then it must be requested using the XSLT <code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute on
the instruction that invokes the validation, as described in section <a href="#validation-xsl-type"><i>19.2.1.2 Validation using the [xsl:]type Attribute</i></a>
</p></div></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1510"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1510] </span></a>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>strict</code>, and
schema validity assessment concludes that the validity of
the element or attribute is invalid or unknown, a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1512"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1512] </span></a>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>strict</code>, and
there is no matching top-level declaration in the schema, then a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1515"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1515] </span></a>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>lax</code>, and
schema validity assessment concludes that the element or attribute is invalid, a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>No mechanism is provided to validate an element or attribute against a local declaration
in a schema. Such validation can usually be achieved by applying validation to a containing element
for which a top-level element declaration exists.</p></div></div><div class="div4">
<h5><a name="validation-xsl-type" id="validation-xsl-type"/>19.2.1.2 Validation using the <code>[xsl:]type</code> Attribute</h5><p>The <code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute takes as its value a <code>QName</code>. This <span class="verb">must</span>
be the name of a type definition included in the
<a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a> for the stylesheet.
If the QName
has no prefix, it is expanded using the default namespace established using the effective
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute if there is one; otherwise, it is taken as being a name
in no namespace.</p><p>If the <code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute is present, then the newly constructed
element or attribute is
validated against the type definition identified by this attribute.</p><ul><li><p>In the case of an element, schema-validity assessment is carried out
according to the rules defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
(section 3.3.4 "Element Declaration Validation Rules", validation rule
"Schema-Validity Assessment (Element)", clauses 1.2 and 2),
using this type definition as the "processor-stipulated type definition".
The element is considered valid if the result of the
schema validity assessment is a PSVI in which the relevant element node has a <code>validity</code>
property whose value is <code>valid</code>. </p></li><li><p>In the case of an attribute, the attribute is considered valid if
(in the terminology of XML Schema) the attribute's normalized value is locally valid
with respect to that type definition according to the rules for "String Valid"
(<a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>, section 3.14.4). (Normalization here refers to the process
of normalizing whitespace according to the rules of the <code>whiteSpace</code> facet for the
data type).</p></li><li><p>If the element or attribute is not considered
valid, as defined above,
the transformation fails <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTTE1540">ERR XTTE1540</a>]</span>.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1520"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1520] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the <code>type</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:type</code> attribute
of a literal result element, is not a valid <code>QName</code>, or if it uses a prefix that is not defined in an
in-scope namespace declaration, or if the QName is not the name of a type definition
included in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>
for the stylesheet.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1530"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1530] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the <code>type</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction refers to a complex type definition.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1540"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1540] </span></a>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if an <code>[xsl:]type</code>
attribute is defined for a constructed element or attribute, and the
outcome of schema validity assessment against that type is that the <code>validity</code> property
of that element or attribute information item is other than <code>valid</code>.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Like other type errors, this error may be signaled statically
if it can be detected statically. For example,
the instruction <code>&lt;xsl:attribute name="dob" type="xs:date"&gt;1999-02-29&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;</code>
may result
in a static error being signaled. If the error is not signaled statically,
it will be signaled when the instruction is evaluated.</p></div></div><div class="div4">
<h5><a name="validation-process" id="validation-process"/>19.2.1.3 The Validation Process</h5><p>As well as checking for validity against the schema, the validity assessment process
causes <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> to be associated with element and attribute nodes.
If default values for elements or attributes are defined in the schema, the validation
process will where necessary create new nodes
containing these default values.</p><p>Validation of an element or attribute node only takes into account constraints on the content
of the element or attribute. Validation rules affecting the document as a whole are not applied.
Specifically, this means:</p><ul><li><p>The validation rule "Validation Root Valid (ID/IDREF)" is not
applied. This means that validation will not fail if there are non-unique ID
values or dangling IDREF values in the subtree being validated.</p></li><li><p>The validation rule "Validation Rule: Identity-constraint Satisfied"
<span class="verb">should</span> be applied.</p></li><li><p>There is no check that the document contains unparsed entities whose names match the values of
nodes of type <code>xs:ENTITY</code> or <code>xs:ENTITIES</code>. (XSLT 2.0 provides no facility
to construct unparsed entities within a tree.)</p></li><li><p>There is no check that the document contains notations whose names match the values of
nodes of type <code>xs:NOTATION</code>. (The XDM data model makes no provision
for notations to be represented in the tree.)</p></li></ul><p>With these caveats, validating a newly constructed element, using strict or lax validation,
is equivalent to the following steps:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>The element is serialized to textual XML form, according to the
rules defined in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a> using the XML output method,
with all parameters defaulted. Note that this process discards
any existing <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>.</p></li><li><p>The resulting XML document is parsed to create
an XML Information Set (see <a href="#xml-infoset">[XML Information Set]</a>.)</p></li><li><p>The Information Set produced in the previous step is validated
according to the rules in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>. The result of this step is a
Post-Schema Validation Infoset (PSVI). If the validation process
is not successful (as defined above), a type error is raised.</p></li><li><p>The PSVI produced in the previous step is converted back into the
XDM data model by the mapping described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>
(<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#PSVI2Types">Section
3.3.1 Mapping PSVI Additions to Node Properties</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>).
This process creates nodes with simple or complex <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a> based on the types established
during schema validation.</p></li></ol><p>Validating an attribute using strict or lax validation requires a modified version
of this procedure. A copy of the attribute is first added to an element node that is created for the purpose,
and namespace fixup (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>) is performed on this element node.
The name of this element is of no consequence, but it must be the same as the name of a
synthesized element declaration of the form:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xs:element name="E"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute ref="A"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;</pre></div><p>where A is the name of the attribute being validated.</p><p>This synthetic element is then validated using the procedure given above for validating elements, and if it
is found to be valid, a copy of the validated attribute is made, retaining its <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>, but detaching it
from the containing element (and thus, from any namespace nodes).</p><p>The XDM data model does not permit an attribute node with no parent to have a typed value
that includes a namespace-qualified name, that is, a value whose type is derived from <code>xs:QName</code>
or <code>xs:NOTATION</code>. This restriction is imposed because these types rely on the namespace nodes
of a containing element to resolve namespace prefixes. Therefore, it is an error to validate a parentless
attribute against such a type.
This affects the instructions <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, and
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1545"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1545] </span></a>A
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> occurs if a <code>type</code> or <code>validation</code>
attribute is defined (explicitly or implicitly) for an instruction that constructs a new attribute node, if the
effect of this is to cause the attribute value to be validated against a type that is derived from,
or constructed by list or union from, the primitive types <code>xs:QName</code> or
<code>xs:NOTATION</code>.
</p></div></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="validating-document-nodes" id="validating-document-nodes"/>19.2.2 Validating Document Nodes</h4><p>It is possible to apply validation to a document node.
This happens when a
new document node is constructed by one of the instructions <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>,
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, or
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, and this instruction has a
<code>type</code> attribute, or a <code>validation</code> attribute
with the value <code>strict</code> or <code>lax</code>.</p><p>Document-level validation is not applied to
the document node that is created implicitly when a variable-binding element has no
<code>select</code> attribute and no <code>as</code> attribute (see <a href="#temporary-trees"><i>9.4 Creating implicit document nodes</i></a>).
This is equivalent to using
<code>validation="preserve"</code> on <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>: nodes within such
trees retain their <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>.
Similarly, validation is not applied to document nodes created using
<a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a>.
</p><p>The values <code>validation="preserve"</code> and <code>validation="strip"</code>
do not request validation. In the first case, all element and attribute nodes within the tree rooted
at the new document node retain their <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>. In the second case, elements within the tree
have their type annotation set to <code>xs:untyped</code>,
while attributes have their type
annotation set to <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p><p>When validation is requested for a document node (that is, when <code>validation</code>
is set to <code>strict</code> or <code>lax</code>, or when a <code>type</code> attribute
is present), the following processing takes place:</p><ul><li><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1550"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1550] </span></a>A
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> occurs
unless the children of the document node comprise
exactly one element node, no text nodes, and zero or more comment and processing instruction nodes,
in any order.
</p></li><li><p>The single element node child is validated, using the supplied values of the <code>validation</code>
and <code>type</code> attributes, as described in <a href="#validating-constructed-nodes"><i>19.2.1 Validating Constructed Elements and Attributes</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The <code>type</code> attribute on
<a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a> and
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>, and
on <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> and <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> when copying a document node, thus refers
to the required type of the element node that is the only element child of the
document node. It does not refer to the type of the document node itself.</p></div></li><li><p>The validation rule "Validation Root Valid (ID/IDREF)" is
applied to the single element node child of the document node.
This means that validation will fail if there are non-unique ID
values or dangling IDREF values in the document tree.</p></li><li><p>Identity constraints, as defined in section 3.11 of
<a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>, are checked. (This refers to constraints defined using
<code>xs:unique</code>, <code>xs:key</code>, and <code>xs:keyref</code>.)</p></li><li><p>There is no check that the tree contains unparsed entities whose names match the values of
nodes of type <code>xs:ENTITY</code> or <code>xs:ENTITIES</code>. This is because there is
no facility in XSLT 2.0 to create unparsed entities in a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>. It is possible to add unparsed
entity declarations to the result document by referencing a suitable DOCTYPE during serialization.</p></li><li><p>There is no check that the document contains notations whose names match the values of
nodes of type <code>xs:NOTATION</code>. This is because notations are
not part of the XDM data model. It is possible to add notations to the result document by referencing a
suitable DOCTYPE during serialization.</p></li><li><p>All other children of the document node (comments and processing instructions)
are copied unchanged.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTTE1555"><span class="error">[ERR XTTE1555] </span></a>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if, when validating a document
node, document-level constraints are not satisfied. These constraints include
identity constraints (<code>xs:unique</code>, <code>xs:key</code>,
and <code>xs:keyref</code>) and ID/IDREF constraints.
</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="serialization" id="serialization"/>20 Serialization</h2><p>A <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">may</span> output a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> as a sequence of
octets, although it is not <span class="verb">required</span> to be able to do so (see <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>).
Stylesheet authors can use <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations
to specify how they wish result trees to be serialized.
If a processor serializes a final result tree, it <span class="verb">must</span> do so
as specified by these declarations.</p><p>The rules governing the output of the serializer are defined in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>.
The serialization is controlled using a number of serialization parameters. The values of these
serialization parameters may be set within the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>,
using the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>, <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>, and
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> declarations.</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-output"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:output<br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  method? = "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var><br/>  byte-order-mark? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  cdata-section-elements? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  doctype-public? = <var>string</var><br/>  doctype-system? = <var>string</var><br/>  encoding? = <var>string</var><br/>  escape-uri-attributes? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  include-content-type? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  indent? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  media-type? = <var>string</var><br/>  normalization-form? = "NFC" | "NFD" | "NFKC" | "NFKD" | "fully-normalized" | "none" | <var>nmtoken</var><br/>  omit-xml-declaration? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  standalone? = "yes" | "no" | "omit"<br/>  undeclare-prefixes? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  version? = <var>nmtoken</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration is optional; if used, it <span class="verb">must</span> always
appear as a <a title="top-level" href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a> element within a stylesheet module.</p><p>A <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> may contain multiple <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations
and may include or import stylesheet modules that also contain
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations. The name of an <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration
is the value of its <code>name</code> attribute, if any.</p><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-output-definition" id="dt-output-definition" title="output definition"/>All
the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations in a stylesheet
that share the same name are grouped into a named <b>output definition</b>;
those that have no name are grouped into a single unnamed output definition.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>A stylesheet always includes an unnamed <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>;
in the absence of an unnamed <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration, the unnamed output
definition is equivalent to the one that would be used if the stylesheet contained an
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration having no attributes.</p><p>A named <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> is used when its name matches the <code>format</code> attribute
used in an <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element. The unnamed output definition is used
when an <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element omits the <code>format</code> attribute.
It is also used when serializing the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> that is created
implicitly in the absence of an <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element.</p><p>All the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>
elements making up an <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> are effectively merged.
For those attributes whose values are namespace-sensitive, the merging is done
after <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QNames</a> have been converted into
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded QNames</a>.
For the <code>cdata-section-elements</code> attribute,
the output definition uses
the union of the values from all the constituent <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations.
For the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute, the output definition uses
the concatenation of the sequences of <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded QNames</a> values
from all the constituent <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations,
taking them in order of increasing <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, or where several have the
same import precedence, in <a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.
For other attributes, the <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> uses the value
of that attribute from the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration with the
highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1560"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1560] </span></a>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if two <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations within an
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> specify
explicit values for the same attribute (other than <code>cdata-section-elements</code>
and <code>use-character-maps</code>),
with the values of the attributes being not equal,
unless there is another <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration within the same
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> that has higher import precedence
and that specifies an explicit value for the same attribute.
</p><p>If none of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations within
an <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> specifies a value
for a particular attribute, then the corresponding serialization parameter takes a default value. The default
value depends on the chosen output method.</p><p>There are some serialization parameters that apply to some output methods but not to
others. For example, the <code>indent</code> attribute has no effect on the <code>text</code> output method.
If a value is supplied for an attribute that is inapplicable to the output method, its value is not passed to the serializer.
The processor <span class="verb">may</span> validate the value of such an attribute, but is not <span class="verb">required</span>
to do so.</p><p>An implementation <span class="verb">may</span> allow the attributes of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration
to be overridden, or the default values to be changed, using the API that controls the transformation.</p><p>The location to which <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
are serialized (whether in filestore
or elsewhere) is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
(which in practice
<span class="verb">may</span> mean that it is controlled using an implementation-defined API).
However, these locations <span class="verb">must</span> satisfy the constraint that
when two <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> are both created (implicitly or explicitly) using
relative URIs in the <code>href</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction, then
these relative URIs may be used to construct references from one tree to the other, and such references <span class="verb">must</span> remain
valid when both result trees are serialized.
</p><p>The <code>method</code> attribute on the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element
identifies the overall method that is to be used for outputting the
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1570"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1570] </span></a>The value
<span class="verb">must</span> (if present)
be a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> does not have a prefix, then it
identifies a method specified in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a> and <span class="verb">must</span> be one of
<code>xml</code>, <code>html</code>, <code>xhtml</code>,
or <code>text</code>. If the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> has a prefix, then the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
is expanded into an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> as described
in <a href="#qname"><i>5.1 Qualified Names</i></a>; the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> identifies the output
method; the behavior in this case is not specified by this
document.</p><p>The default for the <code>method</code> attribute
depends on the contents of the tree being serialized, and
is chosen as
follows. If the document node of the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> has an element
child, and any text nodes preceding the first element child of the document
node of the result tree contain only whitespace characters, then:</p><ul><li><p>If the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of this first element child has local part
<code>html</code> (in lower case), and namespace URI <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</code>,
then the default output method is normally <code>xhtml</code>.
However, if the <code>version</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a>
element of the <a title="principal stylesheet module" href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal stylesheet module</a> has the
value <code>1.0</code>, and if the result tree is generated implicitly (rather than by an explicit
<a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction), then the default output method
in this situation is <code>xml</code>.</p></li><li><p>If the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of this first element child has local part
<code>html</code> (in any combination of upper and lower case) and a
null namespace URI, then the default output method is <code>html</code>.</p></li></ul><p>In all other cases, the default output method
is <code>xml</code>.</p><p>The default output method is used
if the selected <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> does not include a
<code>method</code> attribute.</p><p>The other attributes on <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> provide parameters
for the output method. The following attributes are allowed:</p><ul><li><p>
The value of the <code>encoding</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>encoding</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>,
but in the case of the <code>xml</code>
and <code>xhtml</code> methods it <span class="verb">must</span> be either <code>UTF-8</code> or <code>UTF-16</code>.
</p></li><li><p>The <code>byte-order-mark</code> attribute defines whether a byte order mark
is written at the start of the file. If the value <code>yes</code> is specified, a byte order mark
is written; if <code>no</code> is specified, no byte order mark is written. The default value
depends on the encoding used. If the encoding is <code>UTF-16</code>, the default is <code>yes</code>;
for <code>UTF-8</code> it is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>,
and for all other encodings it is <code>no</code>. The value of the byte order mark indicates whether
high order bytes are written before or after low order bytes; the actual byte order used is
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>,
unless it is defined by the selected encoding.
</p></li><li><p>
The <code>cdata-section-elements</code> attribute is a
whitespace-separated list
of QNames. The default value is an empty list.
After expansion of these names using the in-scope namespace declarations
for the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration in which they appear, this list of
names provides the value of the <code>cdata-section-elements</code> parameter
to the serialization method. In the case of an unprefixed name,
the default namespace (that is, the namespace declared using <code>xmlns="uri"</code>)
is used. </p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>This differs from the rule for most other QNames used in a stylesheet. The reason
is that these names refer to elements in the result document, and therefore follow the same
convention as the name of a literal result element or the <code>name</code> attribute
of <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>.</p></div></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>doctype-system</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>doctype-system</code> parameter to the serialization method.
If the attribute is absent or has a zero-length string as its value, then the serialization
parameter is not set (is "absent").
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>doctype-public</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>doctype-public</code> parameter to the serialization method.
If the attribute is absent or has a zero-length string as its value, then the serialization
parameter is not set (is "absent").
</p><p>The value of <code>doctype-public</code> must conform to the rules
for a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-PubidLiteral">PubidLiteral</a><sup><small>XML</small></sup>
(see <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a>).</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>escape-uri-attributes</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>escape-uri-attributes</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>yes</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>include-content-type</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>include-content-type</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>yes</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>indent</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>indent</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>yes</code> in the case of the <code>html</code> and <code>xhtml</code>
output methods, <code>no</code> in the case of the <code>xml</code> output method.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>media-type</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>media-type</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>text/xml</code> in the case of the <code>xml</code> output method,
<code>text/html</code> in the case of the <code>html</code> and <code>xhtml</code>
output methods, and <code>text/plain</code> in the case of the <code>text</code>
output method.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>normalization-form</code> attribute provides the value of the
<code>normalization-form</code> parameter to the serialization method. A value that is
an <code>NMTOKEN</code> other than one of those enumerated for the <code>normalization-form</code>
attribute specifes an implementation-defined normalization form; the
behavior in this case is not specified by this document. The default
value is <code>none</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>omit-xml-declaration</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>omit-xml-declaration</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>no</code>.
</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>standalone</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>standalone</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The default value is <code>omit</code>;
this means that no <code>standalone</code> attribute is to be included in the XML declaration.
</p></li><li><p>The <code>undeclare-prefixes</code> attribute is
relevant only when producing output with <code>method="xml"</code> and <code>version="1.1"</code>
(or later).
It defines whether namespace undeclarations (of the form <code>xmlns:foo=""</code>) <span class="verb">should</span> be output
when a child element has no namespace node with the same name (that is, namespace prefix) as a
namespace node of its parent element. The default value is <code>no</code>: this means that
namespace undeclarations are not output, which has the effect that when the resulting XML is
reparsed, the new tree may contain namespace nodes on the child element that were not there
in the original tree before serialization.</p></li><li><p>The <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute provides
a list of named character maps that
are used in conjunction with this <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>. The way this attribute
is used is described in <a href="#character-maps"><i>20.1 Character Maps</i></a>.
The default value is an empty list.</p></li><li><p>
The value of the <code>version</code> attribute provides the
value of the <code>version</code> parameter to the serialization method.
The set of permitted values, and the default value,
are <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
A <a title="serialization error" href="#dt-serialization-error">serialization error</a> will be reported
if the requested version is not supported by the implementation.
</p></li></ul><p>If the processor performs serialization, then it must signal any
non-recoverable serialization
errors that occur. These have the same effect as
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic errors</a>:
that is, the processor must signal the error and must not finish as if the
transformation had been successful.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="character-maps" id="character-maps"/>20.1 Character Maps</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-character-map" id="dt-character-map" title="character map"/>A <b>character map</b> allows
a specific character appearing in a text or attribute node
in the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
to be substituted by a specified string of characters during serialization.<span class="definition">]</span>
The effect of character maps is defined in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>.</p><p>The character map that is supplied as a parameter to the serializer is determined from the
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> elements referenced from the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>
declaration for the selected <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>.</p><p>The <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> element is a declaration that may appear as a child
of the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element.</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-character-map"/><code>&lt;!-- Category: declaration --&gt;<br/>&lt;xsl:character-map<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-output-character">xsl:output-character</a>*) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;</code></p><p>The <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> declaration declares a character map with a
name and a set of character mappings. The character mappings are
specified by means of <a href="#element-output-character"><code>xsl:output-character</code></a> elements contained either directly
within the <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> element, or in further character maps referenced
in the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute.</p><p>The <span class="verb">required</span>
<code>name</code> attribute provides a name for the character map.
When a character map is used by an <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> or another
character map, the character map with the highest <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a> is
used.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1580"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1580] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains two or more character maps
with the same name and the same <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>, unless it also contains another character
map with the same name and higher import precedence.
</p><p>The optional <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute lists the names of further character
maps that are included into this character map.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1590"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1590] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a name in
the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> or
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> elements does not
match the <code>name</code> attribute of any <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1600"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1600] </span></a>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a character map references itself, directly or indirectly, via a name in
the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute.
</p><p>It is not an error if the same character map is referenced more than once, directly or indirectly.</p><p>An <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>, after recursive expansion of character maps referenced via its
<code>use-character-maps</code> attribute, may contain several mappings for the same character.
In this situation, the last character mapping takes precedence. To establish the ordering, the following
rules are used:</p><ul><li><p>Within a single <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> element, the characters defined in character maps
referenced in the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute are considered before the characters defined in
the child <a href="#element-output-character"><code>xsl:output-character</code></a> elements.</p></li><li><p>The character maps referenced in a single <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute are considered
in the order in which they are listed in that attribute. The expansion is depth-first: each referenced
character map is fully expanded before the next one is considered.</p></li><li><p>Two <a href="#element-output-character"><code>xsl:output-character</code></a> elements appearing as children of the same
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> element are considered in document order.</p></li></ul><p>The <a href="#element-output-character"><code>xsl:output-character</code></a> element is defined as follows:</p><p class="element-syntax"><a name="element-output-character"/><code>&lt;xsl:output-character<br/>  <b>character</b> = <var>char</var><br/>  <b>string</b> = <var>string</var> /&gt;</code></p><p>The character map that is passed as a parameter to the serializer contains a mapping
for the character specified in the
<code>character</code> attribute to the string specified in the <code>string</code> attribute. </p><p>Character mapping is not applied to characters for which output escaping has
been disabled as described in <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>.</p><p>If a character is mapped, then it is not subjected to XML or HTML escaping.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e29427" id="d5e29427"/>Example: Using Character Maps to Generate Non-XML Output</div><p>Character maps can be useful when producing serialized output in a format that resembles,
but is not strictly conformant to, HTML or XML. For example, when the output is a JSP page,
there might be a need to generate the output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;jsp:setProperty name="user" property="id" value='&lt;%= "id" + idValue %&gt;'/&gt;</pre></div><p>Although this output is not well-formed XML or HTML, it is valid in Java Server Pages.
This can be achieved by allocating three Unicode characters (which are not needed for any other purpose)
to represent the strings <code>&lt;%</code>, <code>%&gt;</code>, and <code>"</code>, for example:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:character-map name="jsp"&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="«" string="&amp;lt;%"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="»" string="%&amp;gt;"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="§" string='"'/&gt;
&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;</pre></div><p>When this character map is referenced in the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration,
the required output can be produced by writing the following in the stylesheet:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;jsp:setProperty name="user" property="id" value='«= §id§ + idValue »'/&gt;</pre></div><p>This works on the assumption that when an apostrophe or quotation
mark is generated as part of an attribute value by the use of character maps, the serializer will
(where possible) use the other choice of delimiter around the attribute value.</p></div><p> </p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e29456" id="d5e29456"/>Example: Constructing a Composite Character Map</div><p>The following example illustrates a composite character map constructed in
a modular fashion:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>
&lt;xsl:output name="htmlDoc" use-character-maps="htmlDoc" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:character-map name="htmlDoc"
use-character-maps="html-chars doc-entities windows-format" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:character-map name="html-chars"
use-character-maps="latin1 ..." /&gt;
&lt;xsl:character-map name="latin1"&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#160;" string="&amp;amp;nbsp;" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#161;" string="&amp;amp;iexcl;" /&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;
&lt;xsl:character-map name="doc-entities"&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xE400;" string="&amp;amp;t-and-c;" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xE401;" string="&amp;amp;chap1;" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xE402;" string="&amp;amp;chap2;" /&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;
&lt;xsl:character-map name="windows-format"&gt;
&lt;!-- newlines as CRLF --&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xA;" string="&amp;#xD;&amp;#xA;" /&gt;
&lt;!-- tabs as three spaces --&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#x9;" string=" " /&gt;
&lt;!-- images for special characters --&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xF001;"
string="&amp;lt;img src='special1.gif' /&amp;gt;" /&gt;
&lt;xsl:output-character character="&amp;#xF002;"
string="&amp;lt;img src='special2.gif' /&amp;gt;" /&gt;
...
&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;</pre></div></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When character maps are used, there is no guarantee that the serialized
output will be well-formed XML (or HTML). Furthermore, the fact that the result
tree was validated against a schema gives no guarantee that the serialized
output will still be valid against the same schema. Conversely, it is possible
to use character maps to produce schema-valid output from a result tree that
would fail validation.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="disable-output-escaping" id="disable-output-escaping"/>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</h3><p>Normally, when using the XML, HTML, or XHTML output method,
the serializer will escape special
characters such as <code>&amp;</code> and <code>&lt;</code>
when outputting text nodes. This
ensures that the output is well-formed. However, it is sometimes
convenient to be able to produce output that is almost, but not quite
well-formed XML; for example, the output may include ill-formed
sections which are intended to be transformed into well-formed XML by
a subsequent non-XML-aware process. For this reason, XSLT defines a
mechanism for disabling output escaping.</p><p>This feature is <a title="deprecated" href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a>.</p><p>This is an optional feature: it is not <span class="verb">required</span> that a XSLT processor that
implements the serialization option <span class="verb">should</span> offer the ability to disable output escaping,
and there is no conformance level that requires this feature.</p><p>This feature requires an extension to the serializer described in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>.
Conceptually, the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
provides an additional boolean property <code>disable-escaping</code>
associated with every character in a text node. When this property
is set, the normal action of the serializer to escape special characters such as <code>&amp;</code>
and <code>&lt;</code> is suppressed.</p><p>An <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>
or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> element may have a
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute; the allowed values are
<code>yes</code> or <code>no</code>. The default is <code>no</code>;
if the value is <code>yes</code>, then every character in the text node generated by
evaluating the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a>
element <span class="verb">should</span> have the <span><code>disable-escaping</code></span> property set.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e29548" id="d5e29548"/>Example: Disable Output Escaping</div><p>For example,</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/xsl:text&gt;</pre></div><p>should generate the single character <code>&lt;</code>.</p></div><p>If
output escaping is disabled for an <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction
evaluated when <a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a> is in effect,
the request to disable output escaping is ignored.</p><p>If output escaping is disabled for text within an element that would
normally be output using a CDATA section, because the element is listed in the
<code>cdata-section-elements</code>, then the relevant text will not be included in a
CDATA section. In effect, CDATA is treated as an alternative escaping mechanism, which
is disabled by the <code>disable-output-escaping</code> option.</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e29580" id="d5e29580"/>Example: Interaction of Output Escaping and CDATA</div><p>For example, if <code>&lt;xsl:output cdata-section-elements="title"/&gt;</code>
is specified, then the following instructions:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;title&gt;
&lt;xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"&gt;This is not &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt; good coding practice&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
&lt;/title&gt;</pre></div><p>should generate the output:</p><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;title&gt;&lt;![CDATA[This is not ]]&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ good coding practice]]&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</pre></div></div><p>The <code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute may be used with
the <code>html</code> output method as well as with the
<code>xml</code> output method. The <code>text</code> output method
ignores the <code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute, since it
does not perform any output escaping.</p><p>A <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> will only be able to disable output escaping if
it controls how the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> is output. This might not always be the
case. For example, the result tree might be used as a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> for
another XSLT transformation instead of being output.
It is <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
whether (and under what circumstances) disabling output escaping is supported.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE1620"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE1620] </span></a>It is
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
if an
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction specifies that
output escaping is to be disabled and the implementation does not
support this.
The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute.
</p><p>
<a name="err-XTRE1630"><span class="error">[ERR XTRE1630] </span></a>It is
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
if an
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction specifies that
output escaping is to be disabled when writing to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> that is
not being serialized.
The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute.
</p><p>If output escaping is disabled for a character that is not
representable in the encoding that the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> is using for
output, the request to disable output escaping is ignored in respect of that character.</p><p>Since disabling output escaping might not work with all implementations
and can result in XML that is not well-formed, it <span class="verb">should</span> be
used only when there is no alternative.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The facility to define character maps for use during serialization,
as described in <a href="#character-maps"><i>20.1 Character Maps</i></a>, has been produced as an alternative mechanism that can be used
in many situations where disabling of output escaping was previously necessary, without the same
difficulties.</p></div><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>When disable-output-escaping is used, there is no guarantee that the serialized
output will be well-formed XML (or HTML). Furthermore, the fact that the result
tree was validated against a schema gives no guarantee that the serialized
output will still be valid against the same schema. Conversely, it is possible
to use disable-output-escaping to produce schema-valid output from a result tree that
would fail validation.</p></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="conformance" id="conformance"/>21 Conformance</h2><p>A <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> that claims conformance with this
specification <span class="verb">must</span> claim conformance either as a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic
XSLT processor</a> or as a <a title="schema-aware XSLT processor" href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware
XSLT processor</a>. The rules for these two conformance levels are defined in
the following sections.</p><p>A processor that claims conformance at either of these two levels <span class="verb">may</span> additionally
claim conformance with either or both of the following optional features: the
serialization feature, defined in <a href="#serialization-feature"><i>21.3 Serialization Feature</i></a>, and the
backwards compatibility feature, defined in <a href="#backwards-compatibility-feature"><i>21.4 Backwards Compatibility Feature</i></a>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>There is no conformance level or feature defined in this specification
that requires implementation of the static typing features described in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
An XSLT processor may provide a user option to invoke static typing,
but to be conformant with this specification it must
allow a stylesheet to be processed with static typing disabled. The interaction of XSLT
stylesheets with the static typing feature of XPath 2.0 has not been specified, so the results
of using static typing, if available, are implementation-defined.</p></div><p>An XSLT processor takes as its inputs a stylesheet and one or more XDM trees
conforming to the data model defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>. It is
not <span class="verb">required</span> that the processor supports any particular method of constructing
XDM trees, but conformance can only be tested if it provides a mechanism that enables
XDM trees representing the stylesheet and primary source document to be constructed
and supplied as input to the processor.</p><p>The output of the XSLT processor consists of zero or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>. It is
not <span class="verb">required</span> that the processor supports any particular method of accessing
a final result tree, but if it does not support the serialization module, conformance can
only be tested if it provides some alternative mechanism that enables access to the
results of the transformation.</p><p>Certain facilities in this specification are described as producing
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> results. A
claim that asserts conformance with this specification <span class="verb">must</span> be accompanied by documentation
stating the effect of each implementation-defined feature. For convenience, a non-normative
checklist of implementation-defined features is provided at
<a href="#implementation-defined-features"><i>F Checklist of Implementation-Defined Features</i></a>.</p><p>A conforming <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal
any <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> occurring in the stylesheet,
or in any XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, except where specified
otherwise either for individual error conditions or under the general provisions for
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards compatible behavior</a>
(see <a href="#forwards"><i>3.9 Forwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>). After signaling such an error, the processor <span class="verb">may</span> continue for the
purpose of signaling additional errors, but <span class="verb">must</span> terminate abnormally without performing
any transformation.</p><p>When a <a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a>
occurs during the course of a transformation, the action depends on whether the error is classified as a
<a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable error</a>.
If a non-recoverable error occurs, the processor <span class="verb">must</span>
signal it and <span class="verb">must</span> eventually terminate abnormally. If a recoverable
error occurs, the processor <span class="verb">must</span> either signal it and terminate
abnormally, or it <span class="verb">must</span> take the defined recovery action and continue processing.</p><p>Some errors, notably <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type errors</a>,
<span class="verb">may</span> be treated as <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static errors</a> or
<a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic errors</a> at the discretion of the
processor.</p><p>A conforming processor <span class="verb">may</span> impose limits on the processing
resources consumed by the processing of a stylesheet.</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="basic-conformance" id="basic-conformance"/>21.1 Basic XSLT Processor</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-basic-xslt-processor" id="dt-basic-xslt-processor" title="basic XSLT processor"/>A <b>basic XSLT processor</b> is an XSLT
processor that implements all the mandatory requirements of this specification with the exception
of certain explicitly-identified constructs related to schema processing.<span class="definition">]</span>
These constructs are listed below.</p><p>The mandatory requirements of this specification are taken
to include the mandatory requirements of XPath 2.0, as described in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
A requirement is mandatory unless the specification includes wording (such as the use of the
words <span class="verb">should</span> or <span class="verb">may</span>) that clearly indicates that it is optional.</p><p>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span>
enforce the following restrictions. It <span class="verb">must</span> signal a static
or dynamic error when the restriction is violated, as described below.</p><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1650"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1650] </span></a>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> includes an
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.
</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>A processor that rejects
an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration will also reject any reference to a user-defined
type defined in a schema, or to a user-defined element or attribute declaration; it will not,
however, reject references to the built-in types listed in <a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a>.</p></div><p>
<a name="err-XTSE1660"><span class="error">[ERR XTSE1660] </span></a>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> includes an
<code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute, or an
<code>[xsl:]validation</code> or <code>default-validation</code>
attribute with a value other than <code>strip</code>.
</p><p>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
constrains the data model as follows:</p><ul><li><p>Atomic values <span class="verb">must</span> belong to one of the atomic types listed in
<a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a> (except as noted below).</p><p>An atomic value may also belong to an implementation-defined type that has been added to
the context for use with <a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>
or <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>.</p><p>The set of constructor functions available are limited to those that construct values
of the above atomic types.</p><p>The static context, which defines the full set of type names recognized by an XSLT
processor and also by the XPath processor, includes these atomic types, plus <code>xs:anyType</code>,
<code>xs:anySimpleType</code>, <code>xs:untyped</code>,
and <code>xs:anyAtomicType</code>.</p></li><li><p>Element nodes <span class="verb">must</span> be annotated with the <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a>
<code>xs:untyped</code>,
and attribute nodes with the type annotation
<code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>.</p></li></ul><p>
<a name="err-XTDE1665"><span class="error">[ERR XTDE1665] </span></a>A
<a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> raise a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the input to the processor includes a node with a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> other than
<code>xs:untyped</code> or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, or an atomic value
of a type other than those which a basic XSLT processor supports.
This error will not arise if the <code>input-type-annotations</code> attribute is set
to <code>strip</code>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>Although this is expressed in terms of a requirement to detect invalid input, an alternative
approach is for a basic XSLT processor to prevent this error condition occurring, by not providing
any interfaces that would allow the situation to arise.
A processor might, for example, implement a mapping from the PSVI to the data model that loses
all non-trivial <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotations</a>; or it might not accept input from a PSVI at all.</p><p>The phrase <em>input to the processor</em> is deliberately wide: it includes
the tree containing the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>,
trees passed as <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>,
trees accessed using the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> functions, and trees returned by
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a> and
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>.</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="schema-aware-conformance" id="schema-aware-conformance"/>21.2 Schema-Aware XSLT Processor</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor" id="dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor" title="schema-aware XSLT processor"/>A <b>schema-aware XSLT processor</b>
is an XSLT processor that implements all the mandatory requirements of this specification,
including those features that a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT
processor</a> signals as an error. The mandatory requirements of this specification are taken
to include the mandatory requirements of XPath 2.0, as described in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
A requirement is mandatory unless the specification includes wording (such as the use of the
words <span class="verb">should</span> or <span class="verb">may</span>) that clearly indicates that it is optional.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="serialization-feature" id="serialization-feature"/>21.3 Serialization Feature</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-serialization-feature" id="dt-serialization-feature" title="serialization feature"/>A processor that
claims conformance with the <b>serialization feature</b>
<span class="verb">must</span> support the conversion
of a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
to a sequence of octets following the rules defined in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
It <span class="verb">must</span> respect all the attributes of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> and <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
declarations, and <span class="verb">must</span> provide all four output methods, <code>xml</code>, <code>xhtml</code>,
<code>html</code>, and <code>text</code>. Where the specification uses words such as <span class="verb">must</span>
and <span class="verb">required</span>, then it <span class="verb">must</span> serialize the result tree in precisely the way described; in
other cases it <span class="verb">may</span> use an alternative, equivalent representation.</p><p>A processor may claim conformance with the serialization feature whether or not it supports
the setting <code>disable-output-escaping="yes"</code> on <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a>, or <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>.
</p><p>A processor that does not claim conformance with the serialization feature <span class="verb">must not</span> signal
an error merely because the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> or <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a>
declarations, or serialization attributes on the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction.
Such a processor <span class="verb">may</span> check that these
declarations and attributes have valid values, but is not <span class="verb">required</span> to do so.
Apart from optional validation, these declarations <span class="verb">should</span> be ignored.</p></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="backwards-compatibility-feature" id="backwards-compatibility-feature"/>21.4 Backwards Compatibility Feature</h3><p>
<span class="definition">[Definition: </span><a name="dt-backwards-compatibility-feature" id="dt-backwards-compatibility-feature" title="backwards compatibility feature"/>A
processor that claims conformance with the <b>backwards compatibility feature</b>
<span class="verb">must</span> support
the processing of stylesheet instructions and XPath expressions with
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>, as
defined in <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>.<span class="definition">]</span>
</p><p>Note that a processor that does not claim conformance with the backwards
compatibility feature <span class="verb">must</span> raise a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if an instruction is evaluated containing an <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute that invokes
backwards compatible behavior <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE0160">ERR XTDE0160</a>]</span>.</p><div class="note"><p class="prefix"><b>Note:</b></p><p>The reason this is a dynamic error rather than a static error is to allow stylesheets
to contain conditional logic, following different paths depending on whether the XSLT processor
implements XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0. The selection of which path to use can be controlled by
using the <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function to test
the <code>xsl:version</code> system property.</p></div><p>A processor that claims conformance with the backwards compatibility
feature <span class="verb">must</span> permit the use of the namespace axis in XPath expressions when backwards
compatible behavior is enabled. In all other circumstances, support for the namespace axis
is optional.</p></div></div></div><div class="back"><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="references" id="references"/>A References</h2><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="normative-references" id="normative-references"/>A.1 Normative References</h3><dl><dt class="label"><span><a name="xpath-datamodel" id="xpath-datamodel"/>Data Model</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/"><cite>XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (Second Edition)</cite></a>,
Anders Berglund, Mary Fernández, Ashok Malhotra, Jonathan Marsh, Marton Nagy, Norman Walsh, Editors.
World Wide Web Consortium,
21 April 2009.
This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath-datamodel-20090421/.
The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/">latest version</a>
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xpath-functions" id="xpath-functions"/>Functions and Operators</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/"><cite>XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators (Second Edition)</cite></a>,
Ashok Malhotra, Jim Melton, Norman Walsh, and Michael Kay, Editors.
World Wide Web Consortium,
21 April 2009.
This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath-functions-20090421/.
The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/">latest version</a>
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml-infoset" id="xml-infoset"/>XML Information Set</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset"><cite>XML Information Set (Second Edition)</cite></a>, John Cowan and Richard Tobin, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 04 Feb 2004. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="ISO3166" id="ISO3166"/>ISO 3166-1</span></dt><dd><div>ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
<em>Codes for the representation of names of countries
and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes</em> ISO 3166-1:1997.
</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="ISO8601" id="ISO8601"/>ISO 8601</span></dt><dd><div>ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
<em>Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange -
Representation of dates and times.</em> ISO 8601:2000(E), Second edition, 2000-12-15.
</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="Unicode" id="Unicode"/>Unicode</span></dt><dd><div>The Unicode Consortium. <em>The Unicode Standard</em>
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 2003, as updated from time to time by the publication of new versions.
See <a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions</a>
for the latest version and additional information on versions of the standard and of the
Unicode Character Database. The version of Unicode to be used is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>,
but implementations are recommended to use the latest Unicode version.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xslt-xquery-serialization" id="xslt-xquery-serialization"/>XSLT and XQuery Serialization</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/"><cite>XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization (Second Edition)</cite></a>,
Scott Boag, Michael Kay, Joanne Tong, Norman Walsh, and Henry Zongaro, Editors.
World Wide Web Consortium,
21 April 2009.
This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xslt-xquery-serialization-20090421/.
The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/">latest version</a>
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml" id="xml"/>XML 1.0</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml"><cite>Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)</cite></a>, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, François Yergeau, <em>et. al.</em>, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 26 Nov 2008. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml11" id="xml11"/>XML 1.1</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/"><cite>Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition)</cite></a>, François Yergeau, Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, <em>et. al.</em>, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 16 Aug 2006. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xmlbase" id="xmlbase"/>XML Base</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/"><cite>XML Base (Second Edition)</cite></a>, Richard Tobin and Jonathan Marsh, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 28 Jan 2009. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xmlbase-20090128/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlbase/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml-id" id="xml-id"/>xml:id</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/"><cite>xml:id Version 1.0</cite></a>, Jonathan Marsh, Daniel Veillard, and Norman Walsh, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 09 Sep 2005. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xml-id-20050909/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml-names" id="xml-names"/>Namespaces in XML 1.0</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names"><cite>Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Second Edition)</cite></a>, Richard Tobin, Dave Hollander, Tim Bray, and Andrew Layman, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 16 Aug 2006. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml-names11" id="xml-names11"/>Namespaces in XML 1.1</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/"><cite>Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Second Edition)</cite></a>, Andrew Layman, Dave Hollander, Richard Tobin, and Tim Bray, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 16 Aug 2006. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xmlschema-1" id="xmlschema-1"/>XML Schema Part 1</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/"><cite>XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition</cite></a>, Henry S. Thompson, Murray Maloney, David Beech, and Noah Mendelsohn, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 28 Oct 2004. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xmlschema-2" id="xmlschema-2"/>XML Schema Part 2</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/"><cite>XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition</cite></a>, Paul V. Biron and Ashok Malhotra, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 28 Oct 2004. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xpath20" id="xpath20"/>XPath 2.0</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/"><cite>XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition)</cite></a>,
Don Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie, Anders Berglund, Scott Boag, <em>et. al.</em>, Editors.
World Wide Web Consortium,
21 April 2009.
This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PER-xpath20-20090421/.
The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/">latest version</a>
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/.</div></dd></dl></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="other-references" id="other-references"/>A.2 Other References</h3><dl><dt class="label"><span><a name="CALCALC" id="CALCALC"/>Calendrical Calculations</span></dt><dd><div>Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz.
<em>Calendrical Calculations Millennium edition (2nd Edition)</em>. Cambridge University Press,
ISBN 0 521 77752 6</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="DOM-Level-2-Core" id="DOM-Level-2-Core"/>DOM Level 2</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/"><cite>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</cite></a>, Arnaud Le Hors, Mike Champion, Jonathan Robie, <em>et. al.</em>, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 13 Nov 2000. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="RFC2119" id="RFC2119"/>RFC2119</span></dt><dd><div>S. Bradner. <em>Key
words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</em>. IETF RFC 2119.
See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt</a>.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="RFC2376" id="RFC2376"/>RFC2376</span></dt><dd><div>E. Whitehead, M. Murata. <em>XML
Media Types</em>. IETF RFC 2376.
See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt</a>.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="RFC3023" id="RFC3023"/>RFC3023</span></dt><dd><div>M. Murata, S. St.Laurent, and D. Cohn.
<em>XML Media Types</em>. IETF RFC 3023.
See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt</a>.
References to RFC 3023 should be taken to refer to any document
that supersedes RFC 3023.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="RFC3986" id="RFC3986"/>RFC3986</span></dt><dd><div>
T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and
L. Masinter. <em>Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic
Syntax</em>. IETF RFC 3986.
See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt</a>.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="RFC3987" id="RFC3987"/>RFC3987</span></dt><dd><div>M. Duerst, M. Suignard.
<em>Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)</em>.
IETF RFC 3987.
See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt</a>.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="UNICODE-TR10" id="UNICODE-TR10"/>UNICODE TR10</span></dt><dd><div>Unicode Consortium.
<em>Unicode Technical Standard #10. Unicode Collation
Algorithm</em>. Unicode Technical Report.
See <a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/</a>.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xinclude" id="xinclude"/>XInclude</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/"><cite>XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition)</cite></a>, David Orchard, Jonathan Marsh, and Daniel Veillard, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 15 Nov 2006. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xinclude-20061115/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xlink" id="xlink"/>XLink</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/"><cite>XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0</cite></a>, Steven DeRose, David Orchard, and Eve Maler, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 27 Jun 2001. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="SCHEMA-AND-XML-1.1" id="SCHEMA-AND-XML-1.1"/>XML Schema 1.0 and XML 1.1</span></dt><dd><div>World Wide Web
Consortium. <em>Processing XML 1.1 documents with XML Schema 1.0 processors</em>.
W3C Working Group Note 11 May 2005. See <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml11schema10-20050511/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml11schema10-20050511/</a>
</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xml-stylesheet" id="xml-stylesheet"/>XML Stylesheet</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet"><cite>Associating Style Sheets with XML documents</cite></a>, James Clark, Editor. World Wide Web Consortium, 29 Jun 1999. This version is http://www.w3.org/1999/06/REC-xml-stylesheet-19990629. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xptr-framework" id="xptr-framework"/>XPointer Framework</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/"><cite>XPointer Framework</cite></a>, Norman Walsh, Paul Grosso, Jonathan Marsh, and Eve Maler, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 25 Mar 2003. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-framework-20030325/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xsl" id="xsl"/>Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/"><cite>Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0</cite></a>, R. Alexander Milowski, Paul Grosso, Stephen Deach, <em>et. al.</em>, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 15 Oct 2001. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xslt" id="xslt"/>XSLT 1.0</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt"><cite>XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0</cite></a>, James Clark, Editor. World Wide Web Consortium, 16 Nov 1999. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.</div></dd><dt class="label"><span><a name="xslt20req" id="xslt20req"/>XSLT 2.0 Requirements</span></dt><dd><div>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req"><cite>XSLT Requirements Version 2.0</cite></a>, Steve Muench and Mark Scardina, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 14 Feb 2001. This version is http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt20req-20010214. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req">latest version</a> is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req.</div></dd></dl></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="xslt-mime-definition" id="xslt-mime-definition"/>B The XSLT Media Type</h2><p>This appendix registers a new MIME media type,
"
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
".</p><p>This information is being submitted to the IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group)
for review, approval, and registration with IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority).</p><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="media-type-registration" id="media-type-registration"/>B.1 Registration of MIME Media Type application/xslt+xml</h3><dl><dt class="label">MIME media type name:</dt><dd><p>
<code>application</code>
</p></dd><dt class="label">MIME subtype name:</dt><dd><p>
<code>xslt+xml</code>
</p></dd><dt class="label">Required parameters:</dt><dd><p>None.
</p></dd><dt class="label">Optional parameters:</dt><dd><dl><dt class="label">
<code>charset</code>
</dt><dd><p>This parameter has identical semantics to the <code>charset</code>
parameter of the <code>application/xml</code> media type as
specified in <a href="#RFC3023">[RFC3023]</a>.
</p></dd></dl></dd><dt class="label">Encoding considerations:</dt><dd><p>By virtue of XSLT content being XML, it has the same
considerations when sent as "
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
"
as does XML. See RFC 3023, section 3.2.
</p></dd><dt class="label">Security considerations:</dt><dd><p>Several XSLT instructions may cause arbitrary URIs to be
dereferenced. In this case, the security issues of
<a href="#RFC3986">[RFC3986]</a>, section 7,
should be considered.</p><p>In addition, because of the extensibility features for XSLT,
it is possible that "
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
"
may describe content that has security implications beyond those
described here. However, if the processor follows only the normative semantics
of this specification, this content will be ignored. Only in
the case where the processor recognizes and processes the additional
content, or where further processing of that content is dispatched to
other processors, would security issues potentially arise. And in that
case, they would fall outside the domain of this registration
document.</p></dd><dt class="label">Interoperability considerations:</dt><dd><p>This specification describes processing semantics that dictate
behavior that must be followed when dealing with, among other things,
unrecognized elements.</p><p>Because XSLT is extensible, conformant
"
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
" processors can expect
that content received is well-formed XML, but it cannot be guaranteed
that the content is valid XSLT or that the processor will recognize all
of the elements and attributes in the document.</p></dd><dt class="label">Published specification:</dt><dd><p>This media type registration is for XSLT stylesheet modules as described by
the XSLT 2.0 specification, which is located at
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/">http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/</a>.
It is also appropriate to use this media
type with earlier and later versions of the XSLT language.
</p></dd><dt class="label">Applications which use this media type:</dt><dd><p>Existing XSLT 1.0 stylesheets are most often described using the
unregistered media type
"
<code>text/xsl</code>
".</p><p>There is no experimental, vendor specific, or personal tree
predecessor to "
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
",
reflecting the fact that no applications currently recognize it. This
new type is being registered in order to allow for the expected
deployment of XSLT 2.0 on the World Wide Web, as a first class XML
application.
</p></dd><dt class="label">Additional information:</dt><dd><dl><dt class="label">Magic number(s):</dt><dd><p>There is no single initial octet sequence that is always present in
XSLT documents.
</p></dd><dt class="label">File extension(s):</dt><dd><p>XSLT documents are most often identified with the extensions
"
<code>.xsl</code>
" or "
<code>.xslt</code>
".
</p></dd><dt class="label">Macintosh File Type Code(s):</dt><dd><p>TEXT</p></dd></dl></dd><dt class="label">Person &amp; email address to contact for further information:</dt><dd><p>Norman Walsh, <code>&lt;<a href="mailto:Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM">Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM</a>&gt;</code>.</p></dd><dt class="label">Intended usage:</dt><dd><p>COMMON</p></dd><dt class="label">Author/Change controller:</dt><dd><p>The XSLT specification is a work product of the World
Wide Web Consortium's XSL Working Group. The W3C has change
control over these specifications.</p></dd></dl></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="media-type-fragid" id="media-type-fragid"/>B.2 Fragment Identifiers</h3><p>For documents labeled as
"
<code>application/xslt+xml</code>
",
the fragment
identifier notation is exactly that for
"
<code>application/xml</code>
",
as specified in RFC 3023.</p></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="glossary" id="glossary"/>C Glossary (Non-Normative)</h2><dl><dt><a href="#dt-qname">QName</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>QName</b> is
always written in the form <code>(NCName ":")? NCName</code>, that is, a local name
optionally preceded by a namespace prefix. When two QNames are compared, however,
they are considered equal if the corresponding
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QNames</a> are the same, as described below.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-uri-reference">URI Reference</a></dt><dd><p>Within this specification, the term
<b>URI Reference</b>, unless otherwise stated, refers to a string in the lexical space of
the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#xml-namespace">XML namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>XML namespace</b>, defined
in <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a> as <code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>,
is used for attributes such as <code>xml:lang</code>, <code>xml:space</code>,
and <code>xml:id</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a></dt><dd><p>The term
<b>XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</b> is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#static_context">Section
2.1.1 Static Context</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. This is a setting in the
static context of an XPath expression; it has two values, <code>true</code> and <code>false</code>. When the value
is set to true, the semantics of function calls and certain other operations are adjusted to give a greater degree
of backwards compatibility between XPath 2.0 and XPath 1.0.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a></dt><dd><p>An <b>XSLT element</b> is an element
in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> whose syntax and semantics are
defined in this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>XSLT instruction</b> is an <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>
whose syntax summary in this specification contains the annotation
<code>&lt;!-- category: instruction --&gt;</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>XSLT namespace</b>
has the URI <code>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</code>. It is used to identify
elements, attributes, and other names that have a special meaning defined in
this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-alias">alias</a></dt><dd><p>A stylesheet can use the
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> element to declare that a
<a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> is being used as an
<b>alias</b> for a
<a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-arity">arity</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>arity</b> of a stylesheet
function is the number of <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements in the function definition.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-atomization">atomize</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>atomization</b> is defined
in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-atomization">Section
2.4.2 Atomization</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>. It is a process that takes as input a sequence of nodes and atomic values, and
returns a sequence of atomic values, in which the nodes are replaced by their typed values as defined in
<a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element defines a named <b>attribute set</b>: that is,
a collection of attribute definitions
that can be used repeatedly on different constructed elements.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a></dt><dd><p>In an
attribute that is designated as an
<b>attribute value template</b>, such as an attribute of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>,
an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> can be used by surrounding
the expression with curly brackets (<code>{}</code>)</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-backwards-compatibility-feature">backwards compatibility feature</a></dt><dd><p>A
processor that claims conformance with the <b>backwards compatibility feature</b>
<span class="verb">must</span> support
the processing of stylesheet instructions and XPath expressions with
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>, as
defined in <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a></dt><dd><p>An element
enables backwards-compatible behavior for itself, its
attributes, its descendants and their attributes if it has an
<code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute (see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>)
whose value is less than <code>2.0</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-base-output-uri">base output URI</a></dt><dd><p>
The <b>base output URI</b> is a URI to be used as the base URI when resolving a relative URI allocated to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.
If the transformation generates more than one final result
tree, then typically each one will be allocated a URI relative to this base URI.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>basic XSLT processor</b> is an XSLT
processor that implements all the mandatory requirements of this specification with the exception
of certain explicitly-identified constructs related to schema processing.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-character-map">character map</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>character map</b> allows
a specific character appearing in a text or attribute node
in the <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
to be substituted by a specified string of characters during serialization.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-circularity">circularity</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>circularity</b> is said to exist
if a construct such as a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>, an
<a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>, or a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>
is defined in terms of itself. For example, if the
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> or <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
specifying the value of a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>
<var>X</var> references a
global variable <var>Y</var>, then the value for <var>Y</var>
<span class="verb">must</span>
be computed before the value of <var>X</var>. A circularity exists if it
is impossible to do this for all global variable definitions.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-collation">collation</a></dt><dd><p>Facilities in
XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 that require strings to be ordered rely on the concept of a named
<b>collation</b>. A collation is a set of rules that determine
whether two strings are equal, and if not, which of them is to be sorted before the other.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-context-item">context item</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>context item</b> is the item currently
being processed. An item (see <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>) is either an atomic value (such as an
integer, date, or string), or a node. The context item is initially set to the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a>
supplied when the transformation is invoked (see <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>).
It changes
whenever instructions such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>
are used to process a sequence of items; each item in such a sequence becomes the context item
while that item is being processed.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-context-node">context node</a></dt><dd><p>If the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a>
is a node (as distinct
from an atomic value such as an integer), then it is also referred to as the <b>context node</b>.
The context node is not an independent variable, it changes whenever the context item changes. When
the context item is an atomic value, there is no context
node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-context-position">context position</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>context position</b> is the position of
the context item within the sequence of items currently being processed. It changes whenever the
context item changes. When an instruction such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> or
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> is used to process
a sequence of items, the first item in the sequence is processed with a context position of 1, the
second item with a context position of 2, and so on.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-context-size">context size</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>context size</b> is the number of items in
the sequence of items currently being processed. It changes
whenever instructions such as <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> and <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>
are used to process a sequence of items; during the processing of each one of those items, the
context size is set to the count of the number of items in the sequence (or equivalently, the position
of the last item in the sequence).</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-core-function">core function</a></dt><dd><p>The
term <b>core function</b> means a function that is specified in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> and that is in the
<a title="standard function namespace" href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function
namespace</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-current-captured-substrings">current captured substrings</a></dt><dd><p>While the <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> instruction is active, a set of
<b>current captured substrings</b> is
available, corresponding to the parenthesized sub-expressions of the regular expression.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-current-group">current group</a></dt><dd><p>The evaluation context for
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> includes a component
called the <b>current group</b>, which is a sequence. The current group is the collection of
related items that are processed collectively in one iteration of the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-current-grouping-key">current grouping key</a></dt><dd><p>The evaluation context for
XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> includes a component
called the <b>current grouping key</b>, which is an atomic value. The current grouping key is
the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a>
shared in common by all the items within the <a title="current group" href="#dt-current-group">current group</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-current-mode">current mode</a></dt><dd><p>At any point in the processing
of a stylesheet, there is a <b>current mode</b>. When the transformation is initiated,
the current mode is the <a title="default mode" href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a>, unless a different initial
mode has been supplied, as described in <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>.
Whenever an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instruction is evaluated, the current mode becomes the mode selected by this instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a></dt><dd><p>At any point in the processing
of a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, there may be a
<b>current template rule</b>. Whenever a <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a> is
chosen as a result of evaluating <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>, or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>,
the template rule becomes the current
template rule for the evaluation of the rule's sequence constructor. When an
<a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>, <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a>
instruction is evaluated, or when evaluating a sequence constructor contained in
an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> or <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> element, or when
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
is called (see <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>), the current
template rule becomes null for the evaluation of that instruction
or function.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-date-formatting-function">date formatting function</a></dt><dd><p>The three
functions <a href="#function-format-date"><code>format-date</code></a>, <a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a>, and
<a href="#function-format-dateTime"><code>format-dateTime</code></a> are referred to collectively as the
<b>date formatting functions</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal format</a></dt><dd><p>All
the <a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations in a stylesheet
that share the same name are grouped into a named <b>decimal format</b>;
those that have no name are grouped into a single unnamed decimal format.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a></dt><dd><p>Top-level
elements fall into two categories: declarations, and
user-defined data elements.
Top-level elements whose names are in the
<a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> are <b>declarations</b>.
Top-level elements in any other namespace are
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>
(see <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>)</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a> within a
<a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet level</a> have a total ordering known
as <b>declaration order</b>. The order of declarations within a stylesheet
level is the same as the document order that would result if each stylesheet module were
inserted textually in place of the <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element that references it.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-default-collation">default collation</a></dt><dd><p>In
this specification the term <b>default collation</b> means the collation that
is used by XPath operators such as <code>eq</code> and <code>lt</code> appearing in
XPath expressions within the stylesheet.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-default-mode">default mode</a></dt><dd><p>There is always a <b>default mode</b>
available. The default mode is an unnamed <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>, and it is used when
no <code>mode</code> attribute is specified on an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-default-priority">default priority</a></dt><dd><p>If no <code>priority</code>
attribute is specified on the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element, a <b>default
priority</b> is computed, based on the syntax of the pattern supplied in the <code>match</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a></dt><dd><p>A
string in the form of a lexical QName may occur
as the value of an attribute node in a stylesheet
module, or within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> contained in
such an attribute node, or as the result
of evaluating an XPath expression contained in such an attribute node.
The element
containing this attribute node is referred to as the <b>defining element</b> of the QName.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-deprecated">deprecated</a></dt><dd><p>Some constructs defined in this
specification are described as being <b>deprecated</b>. The use of this term implies that
stylesheet authors <span class="verb">should not</span> use the construct, and that the construct may
be removed in a later version of this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a></dt><dd><p>An error that is not detected until
a source document is being transformed is referred to as a
<b>dynamic error</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a></dt><dd><p>The
result of evaluating an attribute value template is referred to as the
<b>effective value</b> of the attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-embedded-stylesheet-module">embedded stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>embedded stylesheet module</b> is a stylesheet module that is
embedded within another XML document, typically the source document
that is being transformed.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>expanded-QName</b> contains a pair of values,
namely a local name and an optional namespace URI. It may also contain a namespace prefix.
Two expanded-QNames are equal if the namespace URIs are the same
(or both absent) and the local names are the same. The prefix plays
no part in the comparison, but is used only if the expanded-QName needs to be converted back
to a string.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-expression">expression</a></dt><dd><p>Within this specification, the term
<b>XPath expression</b>, or simply <b>expression</b>, means
a string that matches the production
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#doc-xpath-Expr">Expr</a><sup><small>XP</small></sup>
defined in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-extension-attribute">extension attribute</a></dt><dd><p>An
element from the XSLT namespace may have any attribute not from
the XSLT namespace, provided that the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> (see <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>) of the
attribute has a non-null namespace URI. These attributes are referred to as <b>extension attributes</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-extension-function">extension function</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>extension function</b> is a function that is available for
use within an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>, other than a
<a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>, an additional function defined in this
XSLT specification, a constructor function named after an
atomic type, or a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet
function</a> defined using an <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> declaration.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>extension instruction</b> is an element within a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> that is in
a namespace (not the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>)
designated as an extension namespace.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-extension-namespace">extension namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> mechanism allows namespaces to be designated as
<b>extension namespaces</b>. When a namespace is designated as
an extension namespace and an element with a name from that namespace
occurs in a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
then the element is treated as an <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a>
rather than as a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a></dt><dd><p>The first of the two
<a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output states</a>
is called <b>final output</b> state. This state applies when
instructions are writing to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>final result tree</b>
is a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> that forms part of the final output
of a transformation. Once created, the contents of a final result tree are
not accessible within the stylesheet itself.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-focus">focus</a></dt><dd><p>When a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> is
evaluated, the <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> keeps track of which
items are being processed
by means of a set of implicit variables referred to collectively as the
<b>focus</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible behavior</a></dt><dd><p>An element enables
<b>forwards-compatible behavior</b> for itself, its
attributes, its descendants and their attributes if it has an
<code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute (see <a href="#standard-attributes"><i>3.5 Standard Attributes</i></a>)
whose value is greater than <code>2.0</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a></dt><dd><p>Except where otherwise indicated, the actual
value of an <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> is converted to the <a title="required type" href="#dt-required-type">required type</a>
using the <b>function conversion rules</b>. These are the rules defined in
<a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a> for converting the supplied argument of a function call to the
required type of that argument, as defined in the function signature. The relevant
rules are those that apply when
<a title="XPath 1.0 compatibility mode" href="#dt-compatibility-mode">XPath 1.0 compatibility mode</a> is set to <code>false</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-function-parameter">function parameter</a></dt><dd><p>
An <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element may appear as a child of an <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
element, before any non-<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> children of that element. Such a parameter
is known as a <b>function parameter</b>. A function parameter is a
<a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a> with the additional
property that its value can be set when the function
is called, using a function call in an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a></dt><dd><p>A
top-level <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a>
declares a <b>global variable</b> that
is visible everywhere (except where it
is <a title="shadows" href="#dt-shadows">shadowed</a> by another
binding).</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-group">group</a></dt><dd><p>The <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction
allocates the items in an input sequence into
<b>groups</b> of items (that is, it establishes a collection of sequences) based either on common
values of a grouping key, or on
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that the initial or final
node in a group must match.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a></dt><dd><p>If either of the
<code>group-by</code> attribute or <code>group-adjacent</code> attributes is present, then
<b>grouping keys</b> are calculated for each item in the <a title="population" href="#dt-population">population</a>.
The grouping keys are the items in the sequence obtained by evaluating the expression
contained in the <code>group-by</code> attribute or <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute,
atomizing the result, and then casting an <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code> value to <code>xs:string</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-implementation">implementation</a></dt><dd><p>A specific product that performs the functions of
an <a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">XSLT processor</a> is referred to as
an <b>implementation</b>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a></dt><dd><p>In this
specification, the term <b>implementation-defined</b> refers to a feature where the
implementation is allowed some flexibility, and where the choices made by the
implementation <span class="verb">must</span> be described in
documentation that accompanies any conformance claim.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a></dt><dd><p>The
term <b>implementation-dependent</b> refers to a feature where the
behavior <span class="verb">may</span> vary from one implementation to another, and where the vendor is not expected to
provide a full specification of the behavior.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a></dt><dd><p>A <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a>
<var>D</var> in the stylesheet
is defined to have lower <b>import precedence</b> than another
declaration <var>E</var> if the stylesheet level containing <var>D</var> would be
visited before the stylesheet level containing <var>E</var> in a
post-order traversal of the import tree (that is, a traversal of the
import tree in which a stylesheet level is visited
after its children). Two declarations within the same stylesheet level have
the same import precedence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-import-tree">import tree</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a title="stylesheet level" href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet levels</a>
making up a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> are
treated as forming an <b>import tree</b>. In the import tree,
each stylesheet level has one child for each
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> declaration that it contains.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema component</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> that may be referenced by name in
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> are referred to as the
<b>in-scope schema components</b>. This set is the same throughout all the modules of a stylesheet.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a></dt><dd><p>A node that acts as
the <b>initial context node</b> for the transformation. This node is accessible within the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> as the initial value of the XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>
<code>.</code> (dot) and <code>self::node()</code>,
as described in <a href="#focus"><i>5.4.3.1 Maintaining Position: the Focus</i></a>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a></dt><dd><p>For
each <a title="group" href="#dt-group">group</a>, the item within the group that is first in
<a title="population order" href="#dt-population-order">population order</a>
is known as the <b>initial item</b> of the group.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a></dt><dd><p>The sequence to be sorted
is referred to as the <b>initial sequence</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a></dt><dd><p>The transformation
is performed by evaluating an <b>initial template</b>. If a
<a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a> is
supplied when the transformation is initiated, then this is the initial template;
otherwise, the initial
template is the <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>
selected according to the rules of the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction
for processing the
<a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a> in the
initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-instruction">instruction</a></dt><dd><p>An
<b>instruction</b> is either an <a title="XSLT instruction" href="#dt-xslt-instruction">XSLT instruction</a>
or an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-key">key</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>key</b> is defined as
a set of <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
that share the same name.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-key-specifier">key specifier</a></dt><dd><p>The expression in
the <code>use</code> attribute and the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> within
an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration are
referred to collectively as the <b>key specifier</b>. The key specifier determines
the values that may be used to find a node using this <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>lexical QName</b>
is a string representing a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> in the form
<code>(NCName ":")? NCName</code>, that is, a local name
optionally preceded by a namespace prefix.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a></dt><dd><p>A
namespace URI in the stylesheet tree that is being used to
specify a namespace URI in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
is called a <b>literal namespace URI</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a></dt><dd><p>In
a <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, an element in
the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that does not belong to
the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a> and
that is not an <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> (see <a href="#extension-instruction"><i>18.2 Extension Instructions</i></a>) is classified as a
<b>literal result element</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a></dt><dd><p>As
well as being allowed as <a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declaration</a> elements, the
<a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element is also
allowed in <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructors</a>. Such a variable
is known as a <b>local variable</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-mode">mode</a></dt><dd><p>
<b>Modes</b>
allow a node in a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a> to be processed multiple times, each time
producing a different result. They also allow different sets
of <a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rules</a>
to be active when processing different
trees, for example when processing documents loaded using the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function
(see <a href="#document"><i>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</i></a>) or when processing
<a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary trees</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-named-template">named template</a></dt><dd><p>Templates can be invoked by name.
An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
element with a <code>name</code> attribute defines a <b>named template</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-namespace-fixup">namespace fixup</a></dt><dd><p>The rules for the individual XSLT instructions that
construct a <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a> (see <a href="#creating-new-nodes"><i>11 Creating Nodes and Sequences</i></a>) prescribe some of the situations
in which namespace nodes are written to the tree. These rules, however, are not sufficient
to ensure that the prescribed constraints are always satisfied. The XSLT processor <span class="verb">must</span> therefore
add additional namespace nodes to satisfy these constraints. This process is referred to
as <b>namespace fixup</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="dynamic error" href="#dt-dynamic-error">dynamic error</a> that is not recoverable is referred to as a
<b>non-recoverable dynamic error</b>. When a non-recoverable dynamic error occurs, the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal the error, and the transformation fails.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a></dt><dd><p>If an implementation chooses to recover from
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>, it <span class="verb">must</span> take
the <b>optional recovery action</b> defined for that error condition in this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-first-appearance">order of first appearance</a></dt><dd><p>There is an ordering
among <a title="group" href="#dt-group">groups</a> referred to as the <b>order of first
appearance</b>. A group <var>G</var> is defined to precede a group <var>H</var> in order of first
appearance if the <a title="initial item" href="#dt-initial-item">initial item</a> of <var>G</var> precedes the initial item of <var>H</var>
in population order. If two groups <var>G</var> and <var>H</var> have the same initial item
(because the item is in both groups) then <var>G</var> precedes <var>H</var> if the <a title="grouping key" href="#dt-grouping-key">grouping key</a>
of <var>G</var> precedes the grouping key of <var>H</var> in the sequence that results from evaluating the
<code>group-by</code> expression of this initial item.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a></dt><dd><p>All
the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations in a stylesheet
that share the same name are grouped into a named <b>output definition</b>;
those that have no name are grouped into a single unnamed output definition.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-output-state">output state</a></dt><dd><p>Each instruction
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is evaluated in one of two possible <b>output states</b>:
<a title="final output state" href="#dt-final-output-state">final output state</a> or
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a></dt><dd><p>The <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
element declares a <b>parameter</b>, which may be a
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>,
a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>,
or a <a title="function parameter" href="#dt-function-parameter">function parameter</a>. A parameter
is a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> with the additional property that its value can be set
by the caller when the stylesheet, the template, or the function is invoked.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>pattern</b> specifies
a set of conditions on a node. A
node that satisfies the conditions matches the pattern; a node that
does not satisfy the conditions does not match the pattern. The
syntax for patterns is a subset of the syntax for <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a></dt><dd><p>The formatting of a
number is controlled by a <b>picture string</b>. The
picture string is a sequence of characters, in which the characters
assigned to the variables <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>, <var>grouping-sign</var>,
<var>zero-digit-sign</var>,
<var>digit-sign</var> and <var>pattern-separator-sign</var> are classified as
active characters, and all other characters (including the <var>percent-sign</var> and
<var>per-mille-sign</var>) are classified as passive characters.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-place-marker">place marker</a></dt><dd><p>The
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction performs
two tasks: firstly, determining a <b>place marker</b> (this is
a sequence of integers, to allow for hierarchic numbering schemes such as
<code>1.12.2</code> or <code>3(c)ii</code>), and secondly,
formatting the place marker for output as a text node in the result sequence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-population">population</a></dt><dd><p>The sequence of items
to be grouped, which
is referred to as the <b>population</b>,
is determined by evaluating the XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> contained in the
<code>select</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-population-order">population order</a></dt><dd><p>The population is treated as a sequence;
the order of items in this sequence is referred to as <b>population order</b>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-principal-stylesheet-module">principal stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> may consist of several
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a>,
contained in different XML documents.
For a given transformation, one of these functions as the
<b>principal stylesheet module</b>. The complete <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is
assembled by finding the <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> referenced
directly or indirectly from the
principal stylesheet module using <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> and
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> elements: see <a href="#include"><i>3.10.2 Stylesheet Inclusion</i></a> and
<a href="#import"><i>3.10.3 Stylesheet Import</i></a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-processing-order">processing order</a></dt><dd><p>There
is another ordering among groups referred to as <b>processing order</b>.
If group <var>R</var> precedes group <var>S</var> in processing
order, then in the result sequence returned by the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction
the items generated by processing
group <var>R</var> will precede the items generated by processing group <var>S</var>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-processor">processor</a></dt><dd><p>The software responsible
for transforming source trees into
result trees using an XSLT stylesheet
is referred to as the <b>processor</b>. This is sometimes expanded
to <em>XSLT processor</em> to avoid any confusion with
other processors, for example an XML processor.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable error</a></dt><dd><p>Some dynamic errors are classed as
<b>recoverable errors</b>. When a recoverable error occurs, this specification allows
the processor either to signal the error (by reporting
the error condition and terminating execution) or to take a defined recovery action and continue
processing.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-required-type">required type</a></dt><dd><p>The context within a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
where an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a>
appears may specify the <b>required type</b> of
the expression. The required type indicates the type of the value that the
expression is expected to return.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-reserved-namespace">reserved namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The
XSLT namespace, together with certain other namespaces
recognized by an XSLT processor, are classified as <b>reserved namespaces</b>
and <span class="verb">must</span> be used only as specified in this and related specifications.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>result tree</b>
is used to refer to any tree constructed by <a title="instruction" href="#dt-instruction">instructions</a>
in the stylesheet. A result tree is either a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
or a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-schema-component">schema component</a></dt><dd><p>Type definitions
and element and attribute declarations
are referred to collectively as <b>schema components</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-schema-instance-namespace">schema instance namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>schema
instance namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</code> is used
as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-schema-namespace">schema namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>schema
namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</code> is used
as defined in <a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-schema-aware-xslt-processor">schema-aware XSLT processor</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>schema-aware XSLT processor</b>
is an XSLT processor that implements all the mandatory requirements of this specification,
including those features that a <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT
processor</a> signals as an error. The mandatory requirements of this specification are taken
to include the mandatory requirements of XPath 2.0, as described in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.
A requirement is mandatory unless the specification includes wording (such as the use of the
words <span class="verb">should</span> or <span class="verb">may</span>) that clearly indicates that it is optional.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>sequence
constructor</b> is a sequence of zero or more
sibling nodes in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that
can be evaluated to return a sequence of nodes and atomic values. The way that the resulting
sequence is used depends on the containing instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-serialization">serialization</a></dt><dd><p>A frequent requirement is to
output a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> as an XML document (or in other formats such as HTML).
This process is referred to as <b>serialization</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-serialization-error">serialization error</a></dt><dd><p>If a transformation has successfully produced
a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>, it is still possible that errors may occur in serializing the result tree.
For example, it may be impossible to serialize the result tree using the encoding selected by the user.
Such an error is referred to as a <b>serialization error</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-serialization-feature">serialization feature</a></dt><dd><p>A processor that
claims conformance with the <b>serialization feature</b>
<span class="verb">must</span> support the conversion
of a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
to a sequence of octets following the rules defined in <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-shadows">shadows</a></dt><dd><p>A binding <b>shadows</b> another
binding if the binding occurs at a point where the other binding is visible, and
the bindings have the same name.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-simplified-stylesheet-module">simplified stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>A
<b>simplified stylesheet module</b> is a tree, or part
of a tree, consisting of a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>
together with its descendant nodes and
associated attributes and namespaces.
This element is not itself in the XSLT namespace, but it
<span class="verb">must</span> have an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute,
which implies that it <span class="verb">must</span> have a namespace node that
declares a binding for the XSLT namespace.
For further details see <a href="#simplified-stylesheet"><i>3.7 Simplified Stylesheet Modules</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-singleton-focus">singleton focus</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>singleton focus</b>
based on a node <var>N</var>
has the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> (and therefore the
<a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>) set to <var>N</var>,
and the <a title="context position" href="#dt-context-position">context position</a>
and <a title="context size" href="#dt-context-size">context size</a> both set to 1 (one).</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a></dt><dd><p>Within a
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>, each
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element defines one <b>sort key component</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a></dt><dd><p>A
<b>sort key specification</b>
is a sequence of one or more adjacent <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements which together define rules
for sorting the items in an input sequence to form a sorted sequence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a></dt><dd><p>
For each item in the <a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>,
a value is computed
for each <a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>
within the <a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>.
The value computed for an item by using the <var>N</var>th sort key component
is referred to as the <var>N</var>th <b>sort key value</b> of that item.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-sorted-sequence">sorted sequence</a></dt><dd><p>The sequence after sorting
as defined by the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements
is referred to as the <b>sorted sequence</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>source tree</b>
means any tree provided as input to the transformation. This includes the document containing
the <a title="initial context node" href="#dt-initial-context-node">initial context node</a> if any, documents containing
nodes supplied as the values of <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>,
documents obtained from the results of functions such as <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc"><code>doc</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>,
and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup>, and documents returned by extension functions or extension
instructions. In the context of a particular XSLT instruction, the term <b>source tree</b> means
any tree provided as input to that instruction; this may be a source tree of the transformation as a whole,
or it may be a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a> produced during the course
of the transformation.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stable">stable</a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="sort key specification" href="#dt-sort-key-specification">sort key specification</a>
is said to be <b>stable</b> if its first <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
has no <code>stable</code> attribute, or has a <code>stable</code> attribute whose
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> is <code>yes</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-standalone-stylesheet-module">standalone stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>A
<b>standalone stylesheet module</b> is a stylesheet module that comprises the whole of an XML document.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-standard-attributes">standard attributes</a></dt><dd><p>There are a number of
<b>standard attributes</b> that may appear on any
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>: specifically
<code>version</code>, <code>exclude-result-prefixes</code>,
<code>extension-element-prefixes</code>,
<code>xpath-default-namespace</code>,
<code>default-collation</code>, and <code>use-when</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-standard-function-namespace">standard function namespace</a></dt><dd><p>The <b>standard function namespace</b>
<code>http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions</code>
is used for functions in the function library defined in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> and standard functions defined in this
specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-standard-stylesheet-module">standard stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>A
<b>standard stylesheet module</b> is a tree, or part of a tree, consisting of an
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> or <a href="#element-transform"><code>xsl:transform</code></a> element
(see <a href="#stylesheet-element"><i>3.6 Stylesheet Element</i></a>) together with its descendant nodes and
associated attributes and namespaces.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-static-error">static error</a></dt><dd><p>An error that <span>can be</span> detected by examining
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> before execution starts (that is, before
the source document and values of stylesheet parameters
are available) is referred to as a <b>static error</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-string-value">string value</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>string value</b>
is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-string-value">Section
5.13 string-value Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.
Every node has a <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>. For example, the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>
of an element is the concatenation of the <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string values</a> of all its descendant text nodes.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a></dt><dd><p>A
transformation in the XSLT language is expressed
in the form of a <b>stylesheet</b>, whose syntax is
well-formed XML <a href="#xml">[XML 1.0]</a> conforming to the
Namespaces in XML Recommendation <a href="#xml-names">[Namespaces in XML 1.0]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a></dt><dd><p>An <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
declaration declares the name, parameters, and implementation of a
<b>stylesheet function</b>
that can be called from any XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> within the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stylesheet-level">stylesheet level</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>stylesheet level</b>
is a collection of <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet modules</a> connected
using <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> declarations:
specifically, two stylesheet modules <var>A</var> and <var>B</var> are part of the same
stylesheet level if one of them includes the other by means of an <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a>
declaration, or if there is a third stylesheet module <var>C</var> that is in the same
stylesheet level as both <var>A</var> and <var>B</var>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>
consists of one or more <b>stylesheet modules</b>, each one forming
all or part of an XML document.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a></dt><dd><p>A top-level <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element
declares a <b>stylesheet parameter</b>.
A stylesheet parameter is a global variable with the additional property
that its value can be supplied
by the caller when a transformation is initiated.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a></dt><dd><p>The value of the variable is
computed using the <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> given in the
<code>select</code> attribute or the contained <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
as described in <a href="#variable-values"><i>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</i></a>.
This value is referred to as the <b>supplied value</b> of the variable.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a></dt><dd><p>The
namespace URI that is to be used in the <a title="result tree" href="#dt-result-tree">result tree</a>
as a substitute for a <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace URI</a> is called the
<b>target namespace URI</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-template">template</a></dt><dd><p>An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration
defines a <b>template</b>, which contains a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
for creating
nodes and/or atomic values. A template can serve either as a
<a title="template rule" href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a>, invoked by matching nodes against
a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>, or as a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>,
invoked explicitly by name. It is also possible for the same template to serve in both capacities.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a></dt><dd><p>
An <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> element may appear as a child of an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
element, before any non-<a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> children of that element. Such a parameter
is known as a <b>template parameter</b>. A template parameter is a
<a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a> with the additional
property that its value can be set when the template
is called, using any of the instructions <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>, or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-template-rule">template rule</a></dt><dd><p>A stylesheet contains a
set of <b>template rules</b> (see <a href="#rules"><i>6 Template Rules</i></a>). A template rule has three parts: a
<a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a> that is matched against nodes,
a (possibly empty) set of <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameters</a>, and a
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence
constructor</a> that is evaluated to produce a
sequence of items.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a></dt><dd><p>The second of the two
<a title="output state" href="#dt-output-state">output states</a>
is called <b>temporary output</b> state. This state applies when
instructions are writing to a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>
or any other non-final destination.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>temporary tree</b>
means any tree that is neither a <a title="source tree" href="#dt-source-tree">source tree</a>
nor a <a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a></dt><dd><p>An element occurring as
a child of an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element is called a
<b>top-level</b> element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameter</a></dt><dd><p>A parameter passed to a template may be
defined as a <b>tunnel parameter</b>. Tunnel parameters have the property that they are automatically
passed on by the called template to any further templates that it calls, and so on recursively.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a></dt><dd><p>The term
<b>type annotation</b> is used in this specification to refer to the value returned by the
<code>dm:type-name</code> accessor of a node: see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-type-name">Section
5.14 type-name Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-type-error">type errors</a></dt><dd><p>Certain errors are classified as <b>type errors</b>.
A type error occurs when the value supplied as input to an operation is of the wrong type
for that operation, for example when an integer is supplied to an operation that expects
a node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-typed-value">typed value</a></dt><dd><p>The term <b>typed value</b>
is defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-typed-value">Section
5.15 typed-value Accessor</a><sup><small>DM</small></sup>.
Every node except an element defined in the schema with element-only content has a
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">typed value</a>. For example, the
<a title="typed value" href="#dt-typed-value">typed value</a>
of an attribute of type <code>xs:IDREFS</code> is a sequence of zero or more <code>xs:IDREF</code> values.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data element</a></dt><dd><p>In addition to
<a title="declaration" href="#dt-declaration">declarations</a>,
the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element may contain
any element not from the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>,
provided that the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of the element has a non-null namespace URI. Such
elements are referred to as <b>user-defined data elements</b>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-value">value</a></dt><dd><p>A variable is a binding between a name and a value.
The <b>value</b> of a variable is
any sequence (of nodes and/or atomic values), as defined in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-variable">variable</a></dt><dd><p>The <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> element declares a
<b>variable</b>, which may be a <a title="global variable" href="#dt-global-variable">global variable</a>
or a <a title="local variable" href="#dt-local-variable">local variable</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a></dt><dd><p>The
two elements <a href="#element-variable"><code>xsl:variable</code></a> and <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a>
are referred to as <b>variable-binding elements</b>
</p></dd><dt><a href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a></dt><dd><p>A <b>whitespace text node</b>
is a text node whose content consists entirely of whitespace characters (that is,
#x09, #x0A, #x0D, or #x20).</p></dd></dl></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="element-syntax-summary" id="element-syntax-summary"/>D Element Syntax Summary (Non-Normative)</h2><p>The syntax of each XSLT element is summarized below, together with the
context in the stylesheet where the element may appear. Some elements (specifically,
instructions) are allowed as a child of any element that is allowed to contain a sequence
constructor. These elements are:</p><ul><li>Literal result elements</li><li>Extension instructions, if so defined</li></ul><p><b><a href="#element-analyze-string">xsl:analyze-string</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:analyze-string<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  <b>regex</b> = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  flags? = { <var>string</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-matching-substring">xsl:matching-substring</a>?, <a href="#element-non-matching-substring">xsl:non-matching-substring</a>?, <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>*) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:analyze-string&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-apply-imports">xsl:apply-imports</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:apply-imports&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:apply-imports&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-apply-templates">xsl:apply-templates</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  mode? = <var>token</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a> | <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>)* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:apply-templates&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-attribute">xsl:attribute</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:attribute<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  namespace? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  separator? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></li><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-attribute-set">xsl:attribute-set</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:attribute-set<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-attribute">xsl:attribute</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:attribute-set&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-call-template">xsl:call-template</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:call-template<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-character-map">xsl:character-map</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:character-map<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-output-character">xsl:output-character</a>*) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:character-map&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-choose">xsl:choose</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:choose&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-when">xsl:when</a>+, <a href="#element-otherwise">xsl:otherwise</a>?) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:choose&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-comment">xsl:comment</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:comment<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:comment&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-copy">xsl:copy</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:copy<br/>  copy-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  inherit-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:copy&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-copy-of">xsl:copy-of</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:copy-of<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  copy-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip" /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-decimal-format">xsl:decimal-format</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:decimal-format<br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  decimal-separator? = <var>char</var><br/>  grouping-separator? = <var>char</var><br/>  infinity? = <var>string</var><br/>  minus-sign? = <var>char</var><br/>  NaN? = <var>string</var><br/>  percent? = <var>char</var><br/>  per-mille? = <var>char</var><br/>  zero-digit? = <var>char</var><br/>  digit? = <var>char</var><br/>  pattern-separator? = <var>char</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-document">xsl:document</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:document<br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:document&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-element">xsl:element</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:element<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  namespace? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  inherit-namespaces? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-attribute-sets? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:element&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:fallback&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:fallback&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-for-each">xsl:for-each</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:for-each<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-for-each-group">xsl:for-each-group</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:for-each-group<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-by? = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-adjacent? = <var>expression</var><br/>  group-starting-with? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  group-ending-with? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  collation? = { <var>uri</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:for-each-group&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-function">xsl:function</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:function<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  override? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:function&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-if">xsl:if</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:if<br/>  <b>test</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:if&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-import">xsl:import</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:import<br/>  <b>href</b> = <var>uri-reference</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-import-schema">xsl:import-schema</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:import-schema<br/>  namespace? = <var>uri-reference</var><br/>  schema-location? = <var>uri-reference</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: xs:schema? --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:import-schema&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-include">xsl:include</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:include<br/>  <b>href</b> = <var>uri-reference</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-key">xsl:key</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:key<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  <b>match</b> = <var>pattern</var><br/>  use? = <var>expression</var><br/>  collation? = <var>uri</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:key&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-matching-substring">xsl:matching-substring</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:matching-substring&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:matching-substring&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-message">xsl:message</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:message<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  terminate? = { "yes" | "no" }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:message&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li><li><code>xsl:function</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-namespace">xsl:namespace</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:namespace<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>ncname</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:namespace&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-namespace-alias">xsl:namespace-alias</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:namespace-alias<br/>  <b>stylesheet-prefix</b> = <var>prefix</var> | "#default"<br/>  <b>result-prefix</b> = <var>prefix</var> | "#default" /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-next-match">xsl:next-match</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:next-match&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a> | <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>)* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:next-match&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-non-matching-substring">xsl:non-matching-substring</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:non-matching-substring&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-number">xsl:number</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:number<br/>  value? = <var>expression</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  level? = "single" | "multiple" | "any"<br/>  count? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  from? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  format? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  lang? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  letter-value? = { "alphabetic" | "traditional" }<br/>  ordinal? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  grouping-separator? = { <var>char</var> }<br/>  grouping-size? = { <var>number</var> } /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-otherwise">xsl:otherwise</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:choose</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-output">xsl:output</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:output<br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  method? = "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var><br/>  byte-order-mark? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  cdata-section-elements? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  doctype-public? = <var>string</var><br/>  doctype-system? = <var>string</var><br/>  encoding? = <var>string</var><br/>  escape-uri-attributes? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  include-content-type? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  indent? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  media-type? = <var>string</var><br/>  normalization-form? = "NFC" | "NFD" | "NFKC" | "NFKD" | "fully-normalized" | "none" | <var>nmtoken</var><br/>  omit-xml-declaration? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  standalone? = "yes" | "no" | "omit"<br/>  undeclare-prefixes? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  version? = <var>nmtoken</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-output-character">xsl:output-character</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:output-character<br/>  <b>character</b> = <var>char</var><br/>  <b>string</b> = <var>string</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:character-map</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:param<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  required? = "yes" | "no"<br/>  tunnel? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:param&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li><li><code>xsl:function</code></li><li><code>xsl:template</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-perform-sort">xsl:perform-sort</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:perform-sort<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a>+, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:perform-sort&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-preserve-space">xsl:preserve-space</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:preserve-space<br/>  <b>elements</b> = <var>tokens</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-processing-instruction">xsl:processing-instruction</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:processing-instruction<br/>  <b>name</b> = { <var>ncname</var> }<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:processing-instruction&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-result-document">xsl:result-document</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:result-document<br/>  format? = { <var>qname</var> }<br/>  href? = { <var>uri-reference</var> }<br/>  validation? = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  type? = <var>qname</var><br/>  method? = { "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var> }<br/>  byte-order-mark? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  cdata-section-elements? = { <var>qnames</var> }<br/>  doctype-public? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  doctype-system? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  encoding? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  escape-uri-attributes? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  include-content-type? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  indent? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  media-type? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  normalization-form? = { "NFC" | "NFD" | "NFKC" | "NFKD" | "fully-normalized" | "none" | <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  omit-xml-declaration? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  standalone? = { "yes" | "no" | "omit" }<br/>  undeclare-prefixes? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  use-character-maps? = <var>qnames</var><br/>  output-version? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:result-document&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-sequence">xsl:sequence</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:sequence<br/>  <b>select</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <a href="#element-fallback">xsl:fallback</a>* --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:sequence&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-sort">xsl:sort</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:sort<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  lang? = { <var>nmtoken</var> }<br/>  order? = { "ascending" | "descending" }<br/>  collation? = { <var>uri</var> }<br/>  stable? = { "yes" | "no" }<br/>  case-order? = { "upper-first" | "lower-first" }<br/>  data-type? = { "text" | "number" | <var>qname-but-not-ncname</var> }&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:sort&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></li><li><code>xsl:for-each</code></li><li><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></li><li><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-strip-space">xsl:strip-space</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:strip-space<br/>  <b>elements</b> = <var>tokens</var> /&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-stylesheet">xsl:stylesheet</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet<br/>  id? = <var>id</var><br/>  extension-element-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  exclude-result-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  <b>version</b> = <var>number</var><br/>  xpath-default-namespace? = <var>uri</var><br/>  default-validation? = "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  default-collation? = <var>uri-list</var><br/>  input-type-annotations? = "preserve" | "strip" | "unspecified"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-import">xsl:import</a>*, <var>other-declarations</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>None</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-template">xsl:template</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:template<br/>  match? = <var>pattern</var><br/>  name? = <var>qname</var><br/>  priority? = <var>number</var><br/>  mode? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-param">xsl:param</a>*, <var>sequence-constructor</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-text">xsl:text</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:text<br/>  <span class="grayed">[disable-output-escaping]?</span> = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: #PCDATA --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:text&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-transform">xsl:transform</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:transform<br/>  id? = <var>id</var><br/>  extension-element-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  exclude-result-prefixes? = <var>tokens</var><br/>  <b>version</b> = <var>number</var><br/>  xpath-default-namespace? = <var>uri</var><br/>  default-validation? = "preserve" | "strip"<br/>  default-collation? = <var>uri-list</var><br/>  input-type-annotations? = "preserve" | "strip" | "unspecified"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: (<a href="#element-import">xsl:import</a>*, <var>other-declarations</var>) --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:transform&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>None</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-value-of">xsl:value-of</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:value-of<br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  separator? = { <var>string</var> }<br/>  <span class="grayed">[disable-output-escaping]?</span> = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-variable">xsl:variable</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Category: </i>declaration instruction</p><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:variable<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></li><li><code>xsl:transform</code></li><li><code>xsl:function</code></li><li>any XSLT element whose content model is <i>sequence constructor</i></li><li>any literal result element</li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-when">xsl:when</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:when<br/>  <b>test</b> = <var>expression</var>&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:when&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:choose</code></li></ul></td></tr></table><p><b><a href="#element-with-param">xsl:with-param</a></b></p><table width="100%"><tr><td class="narrw"> </td><td><p><i>Model:</i></p><p class="element-syntax-summary"><code>&lt;xsl:with-param<br/>  <b>name</b> = <var>qname</var><br/>  select? = <var>expression</var><br/>  as? = <var>sequence-type</var><br/>  tunnel? = "yes" | "no"&gt;<br/>  &lt;!-- Content: <var>sequence-constructor</var> --&gt;<br/>&lt;/xsl:with-param&gt;</code></p><p><i>Permitted parent elements:</i></p><ul><li><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></li><li><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></li><li><code>xsl:call-template</code></li><li><code>xsl:next-match</code></li></ul></td></tr></table></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="error-summary" id="error-summary"/>E Summary of Error Conditions (Non-Normative)</h2><p>This appendix provides a summary of error conditions that a processor
may signal. This list is not exhaustive or definitive. The errors are numbered
for ease of reference, but there is no implication that an implementation <span class="verb">must</span>
signal errors using these error codes, or that applications can test for these codes.
Moreover, implementations are not <span class="verb">required</span> to signal errors using the descriptive
text used here.</p><p><b>Static errors</b></p><dl><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0010"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0010</span></a></dt><dd><p>A <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> is signaled
if an XSLT-defined element is used in a context
where it is not permitted, if a <span class="verb">required</span> attribute is omitted,
or if the content of the element does not correspond to the
content that is allowed for the element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0020"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0020</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an attribute (other than an attribute written using curly brackets in
a position where an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a> is permitted) contains a value
that is not one of the permitted values for that attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0080"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0080</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
to use a <a title="reserved namespace" href="#dt-reserved-namespace">reserved namespace</a> in the name of
a <a title="named template" href="#dt-named-template">named template</a>,
a <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>,
an <a title="attribute set" href="#dt-attribute-set">attribute set</a>,
a <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a>,
a <a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal-format</a>,
a <a title="variable" href="#dt-variable">variable</a> or <a title="parameter" href="#dt-parameter">parameter</a>,
a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>, a
named <a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a>, or a
<a title="character map" href="#dt-character-map">character map</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0090"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0090</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> for
an element from the XSLT namespace to have an attribute
whose namespace is either null
(that is, an attribute with an unprefixed name) or the XSLT namespace, other than attributes defined
for the element in this document.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0110"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0110</span></a></dt><dd><p>The value of the <code>version</code> attribute
<span class="verb">must</span> be a number: specifically, it <span class="verb">must</span> be a
a valid instance of the type <code>xs:decimal</code> as defined in
<a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0120"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0120</span></a></dt><dd><p>An <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element <span class="verb">must not</span> have
any text node children.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0125"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0125</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of an <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code> attribute,
after resolving against the base URI, contains no URI that the implementation
recognizes as a collation URI.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0130"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0130</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element has
a child element whose name has a null namespace URI.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0150"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0150</span></a></dt><dd><p>A <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a> that
is used as the outermost element of a
simplified stylesheet module <span class="verb">must</span> have
an <code>xsl:version</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0165"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0165</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the processor is not able to retrieve the resource
identified by the URI reference [ in the <code>href</code> attribute
of <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> or <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>
] , or if the resource that is retrieved does
not contain a stylesheet module conforming to this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0170"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0170</span></a></dt><dd><p>An <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> be a
<a title="top-level" href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a> element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0180"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0180</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if a stylesheet module
directly or indirectly includes itself.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0190"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0190</span></a></dt><dd><p>An <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> element
<span class="verb">must</span> be a <a title="top-level" href="#dt-top-level">top-level</a> element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0200"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0200</span></a></dt><dd><p>The
<a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> element children <span class="verb">must</span> precede all other
element children of an <a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> element, including
any <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> element children and any
<a title="user-defined data element" href="#dt-data-element">user-defined data elements</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0210"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0210</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a stylesheet module directly or indirectly imports itself.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0215"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0215</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if an <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
element that contains an <code>xs:schema</code> element has a <code>schema-location</code> attribute,
or if it has a <code>namespace</code> attribute that conflicts with the target namespace
of the contained schema.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0220"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0220</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the
synthetic schema document does not satisfy the constraints described in
<a href="#xmlschema-1">[XML Schema Part 1]</a> (section 5.1, <em>Errors in Schema Construction and Structure</em>).
This includes, without loss of generality, conflicts such as multiple definitions of the same name.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0260"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0260</span></a></dt><dd><p>Within an
<a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a> that is <span class="verb">required</span> to be empty,
any content other than comments or processing instructions, including any
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text node</a>
preserved using the <code>xml:space="preserve"</code> attribute, is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0265"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0265</span></a></dt><dd><p> It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if there is a
<a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> that specifies
<code>input-type-annotations="strip"</code> and
another <a title="stylesheet module" href="#dt-stylesheet-module">stylesheet module</a>
that specifies <code>input-type-annotations="preserve"</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0280"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0280</span></a></dt><dd><p>In the case of a prefixed
<a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
used as the value of an attribute in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>, or appearing within
an XPath <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expression</a> in the stylesheet,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a> has
no namespace node whose name matches the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0340"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0340</span></a></dt><dd><p>Where an attribute is
defined to contain a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the
pattern does not match the production <a href="#NT-Pattern">Pattern</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0350"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0350</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an unescaped left curly bracket appears in a fixed part of an attribute value template without a matching right
curly bracket.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0370"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0370</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an unescaped right curly bracket occurs in a fixed part of an attribute value template.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0500"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0500</span></a></dt><dd><p>An
<a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element <span class="verb">must</span> have either a <code>match</code>
attribute or a <code>name</code> attribute, or both. An <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element
that has no <code>match</code> attribute <span class="verb">must</span> have no <code>mode</code> attribute and no
<code>priority</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0530"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0530</span></a></dt><dd><p>The value of this attribute
[the <code>priority</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element]
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to the rules for the <code>xs:decimal</code>
type defined in <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>. Negative values are permitted.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0550"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0550</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the list [of modes in the <code>mode</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a>
] is empty,
if the same token is included more than once in the list, if the list contains an invalid token,
or if the token <code>#all</code> appears together with any other value.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0580"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0580</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if two
parameters of a template or of a stylesheet function have the same name.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0620"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0620</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">variable-binding element</a> has a <code>select</code>
attribute and has non-empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0630"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0630</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains more than one binding of a global
variable with the same name and same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>,
unless it also contains another binding with the same name and higher import precedence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0650"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0650</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction whose <code>name</code> attribute does
not match the <code>name</code> attribute of any <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0660"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0660</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains more than one <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a> with
the same name and the same <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>, unless it also contains a <a title="template" href="#dt-template">template</a>
with the same name and higher <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0670"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0670</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a single <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>, <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>
element contains two or more <a href="#element-with-param"><code>xsl:with-param</code></a> elements
with matching <code>name</code> attributes.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0680"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0680</span></a></dt><dd><p>In the case of <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a>,
it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
to pass a non-tunnel parameter named <var>x</var> to a template that does not have a
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a> named
<var>x</var>, unless <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards
compatible behavior</a> is enabled for the <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0690"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0690</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a template that is invoked using <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> declares a
<a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
specifying <code>required="yes"</code> and not specifying
<code>tunnel="yes"</code>, if no value for
this parameter is supplied by the calling instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0710"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0710</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the value of the
<code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of an <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, or
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element, or the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> attribute of a
<a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>, is not a
whitespace-separated sequence
of <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QNames</a>, or if it contains a QName that does not match the <code>name</code>
attribute of any <a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> declaration in the stylesheet.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0720"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0720</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if an
<a href="#element-attribute-set"><code>xsl:attribute-set</code></a> element directly
or indirectly references itself via the names contained in the <code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0740"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0740</span></a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> have a prefixed name,
to remove any risk of a clash with a function in the default function namespace. It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the name has no prefix.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0760"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0760</span></a></dt><dd><p>Because arguments to a stylesheet
function call <span class="verb">must</span> all be specified, the <a href="#element-param"><code>xsl:param</code></a> elements within an
<a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element <span class="verb">must not</span> specify a default value: this means they
<span class="verb">must</span> be empty, and <span class="verb">must not</span> have a <code>select</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0770"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0770</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> for
a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to contain two or more functions with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>,
the same <a title="arity" href="#dt-arity">arity</a>, and the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, unless there is
another function with the same <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
and arity, and a higher import precedence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0805"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0805</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an attribute on a literal result element is in the <a title="XSLT namespace" href="#dt-xslt-namespace">XSLT namespace</a>,
unless it is one of the attributes explicitly defined in this specification.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0808"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0808</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a namespace prefix
is used within the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute and there
is no namespace binding in scope for that prefix.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0809"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0809</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the value <code>#default</code>
is used within the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code> attribute and
the parent element of the <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>
attribute has no default namespace.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0810"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0810</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if there is more
than one such declaration
[more than one <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declaration]
with the same <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a> and the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>
and different values for the <a title="target namespace URI" href="#dt-target-namespace-uri">target namespace URI</a>,
unless there is also an <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declaration
with the same <a title="literal namespace URI" href="#dt-literal-namespace-uri">literal namespace
URI</a> and a higher import precedence.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0812"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0812</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a value other than <code>#default</code>
is specified for either the <code>stylesheet-prefix</code> or the <code>result-prefix</code>
attributes of the <a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> element when there is no in-scope binding
for that namespace prefix.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0840"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0840</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0870"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0870</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> element is present when the
content of the element is non-empty, or if the <code>select</code> attribute is absent when the
content is empty.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0880"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0880</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0910"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0910</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> element is present when the
element has content other than one or more <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a>
instructions, or if the <code>select</code> attribute is absent when the element
has empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0940"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0940</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-comment"><code>xsl:comment</code></a> element is present unless the
element has empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE0975"><span class="error">ERR XTSE0975</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <code>value</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> is present unless the <code>select</code>,
<code>level</code>, <code>count</code>,
and <code>from</code> attributes are all absent.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1015"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1015</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element with a <code>select</code> attribute has non-empty content.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1017"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1017</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element other than the first in a sequence of sibling
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> elements has a <code>stable</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1040"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1040</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a> instruction with a <code>select</code> attribute has any content
other than <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> and <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> instructions.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1060"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1060</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <a href="#function-current-group"><code>current-group</code></a> function is used
within a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1070"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1070</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
the <a href="#function-current-grouping-key"><code>current-grouping-key</code></a> function is used
within a <a title="pattern" href="#dt-pattern">pattern</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1080"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1080</span></a></dt><dd><p>These four attributes
[the <code>group-by</code>,
<code>group-adjacent</code>,
<code>group-starting-with</code>, and <code>group-ending-with</code>
attributes of <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
]
are mutually exclusive: it is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if none of these
four attributes is present, or if more than one of them is present.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1090"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1090</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is an error to specify the
<code>collation</code> attribute if neither the
<code>group-by</code> attribute nor <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is specified.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1130"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1130</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction
contains neither an <a href="#element-matching-substring"><code>xsl:matching-substring</code></a> nor an
<a href="#element-non-matching-substring"><code>xsl:non-matching-substring</code></a> element.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1205"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1205</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration has a <code>use</code> attribute and has non-empty content, or
if it has empty content and no <code>use</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1210"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1210</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a static error if
the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration
has a <code>collation</code> attribute whose value
(after resolving against the base URI)
is not a URI recognized by the implementation
as referring to a collation.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1220"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1220</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a static error if there are
several <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declarations
in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> with the same key name and different
effective collations. Two collations are the same if their URIs are equal under the rules
for comparing <code>xs:anyURI</code> values, or if the implementation can determine that they
are different URIs referring to the same collation.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1290"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1290</span></a></dt><dd><p>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if a named or unnamed
<a title="decimal format" href="#dt-decimal-format">decimal format</a> contains two conflicting
values for the same attribute in different
<a href="#element-decimal-format"><code>xsl:decimal-format</code></a> declarations having the same
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>, unless there is another definition
of the same attribute with higher import precedence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1295"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1295</span></a></dt><dd><p>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the character specified
in the <code>zero-digit</code> attribute is not a digit or is a digit that does not have
the numeric value zero.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1300"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1300</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if,
for any named or unnamed decimal format, the variables
representing characters used in a <a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
do not each have distinct values. These variables are <var>decimal-separator-sign</var>,
<var>grouping-sign</var>, <var>percent-sign</var>, <var>per-mille-sign</var>,
<var>digit-zero-sign</var>, <var>digit-sign</var>, and <var>pattern-separator-sign</var>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1430"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1430</span></a></dt><dd><p>It
is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if there is no namespace bound to the prefix on the
element bearing the <code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code> attribute
or, when <code>#default</code> is specified,
if there is no default namespace.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1505"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1505</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if both the
<code>[xsl:]type</code> and <code>[xsl:]validation</code> attributes are present on
the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instructions,
or on a <a title="literal result element" href="#dt-literal-result-element">literal result element</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1520"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1520</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the <code>type</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, <a href="#element-document"><code>xsl:document</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:type</code> attribute
of a literal result element, is not a valid <code>QName</code>, or if it uses a prefix that is not defined in an
in-scope namespace declaration, or if the QName is not the name of a type definition
included in the <a title="in-scope schema component" href="#dt-in-scope-schema-component">in-scope schema components</a>
for the stylesheet.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1530"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1530</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the <code>type</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction refers to a complex type definition</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1560"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1560</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if two <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declarations within an
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> specify
explicit values for the same attribute (other than <code>cdata-section-elements</code>
and <code>use-character-maps</code>),
with the values of the attributes being not equal,
unless there is another <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration within the same
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> that has higher import precedence
and that specifies an explicit value for the same attribute.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1570"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1570</span></a></dt><dd><p>The value
[of the <code>method</code> attribute on
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a>
]
<span class="verb">must</span> (if present)
be a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a> does not have a prefix, then it
identifies a method specified in <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a> and <span class="verb">must</span> be one of
<code>xml</code>, <code>html</code>, <code>xhtml</code>,
or <code>text</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1580"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1580</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> contains two or more character maps
with the same name and the same <a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import
precedence</a>, unless it also contains another character
map with the same name and higher import precedence.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1590"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1590</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if a name in
the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> or
<a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> elements does not
match the <code>name</code> attribute of any <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1600"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1600</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if
a character map references itself, directly or indirectly, via a name in
the <code>use-character-maps</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1650"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1650</span></a></dt><dd><p>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> includes an
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTSE1660"><span class="error">ERR XTSE1660</span></a></dt><dd><p>A <a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> signal a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a> if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> includes an
<code>[xsl:]type</code> attribute, or an
<code>[xsl:]validation</code> or <code>default-validation</code>
attribute with a value other than <code>strip</code>.</p></dd></dl><p><b>Type errors</b></p><dl><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0505"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0505</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the result of evaluating the <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
cannot be converted to the required type.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0510"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0510</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if
an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> instruction with no <code>select</code> attribute is evaluated when
the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is not a node.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0520"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0520</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if
the sequence returned by the <code>select</code> expression
[of <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
]
contains an item that is not a node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0570"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0570</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of a variable
cannot be converted to the required type.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0590"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0590</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the conversion of the <a title="supplied value" href="#dt-supplied-value">supplied value</a> of a
parameter to its required type fails.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0600"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0600</span></a></dt><dd><p>If a default value is given explicitly, that is,
if there is either a <code>select</code>
attribute or a non-empty <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>, then
it is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the default value
cannot be converted to the required type, using the
<a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0780"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0780</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the <code>as</code> attribute
[of <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a>
]
is specified, then the result evaluated by the
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>
(see <a href="#sequence-constructors"><i>5.7 Sequence Constructors</i></a>) is converted to the required type,
using the <a title="function conversion rules" href="#dt-function-conversion-rules">function conversion rules</a>.
It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if this conversion fails.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0790"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0790</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the value
of a parameter to a <a title="stylesheet function" href="#dt-stylesheet-function">stylesheet function</a>
cannot be converted to the required type,
a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> is signaled.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0950"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0950</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> to use the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>
or <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a> instruction to copy a node that has namespace-sensitive content
if the <code>copy-namespaces</code> attribute has the value
<code>no</code> and its explicit or implicit <code>validation</code> attribute has
the value <code>preserve</code>.
It is also a type error if either of these instructions (with <code>validation="preserve"</code>)
is used to copy an attribute having
namespace-sensitive content, unless the parent element is also copied.
A node has namespace-sensitive content if its typed value contains an item of type
<code>xs:QName</code> or <code>xs:NOTATION</code> or a type derived therefrom.
The reason this is an error is because the validity of the content depends on the
namespace context being preserved.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE0990"><span class="error">ERR XTTE0990</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction is evaluated, with no <code>value</code>
or <code>select</code> attribute,
when the <a title="context item" href="#dt-context-item">context item</a> is not a node.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1000"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1000</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the result of evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
instruction is anything other than a single node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1020"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1020</span></a></dt><dd><p>If any <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key value</a>, after
<a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomization</a> and any type conversion <span class="verb">required</span> by the
<code>data-type</code> attribute, is a sequence containing
more than one item, then the effect depends on whether the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
is evaluated with <a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>.
With backwards compatible behavior, the effective sort key value is the first item in the sequence.
In other cases, this is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1100"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1100</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a>
if the grouping key evaluated using
the <code>group-adjacent</code> attribute is an empty sequence, or a sequence containing
more than one item. </p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1120"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1120</span></a></dt><dd><p>When the <code>group-starting-with</code>
or <code>group-ending-with</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction]
is used, it is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if the
result of evaluating the <code>select</code> expression
contains an item that is not a node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1510"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1510</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>strict</code>, and
schema validity assessment concludes that the validity of
the element or attribute is invalid or unknown, a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1512"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1512</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>strict</code>, and
there is no matching top-level declaration in the schema, then a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1515"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1515</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the <code>validation</code> attribute
of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>, <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a>,
<a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, <a href="#element-copy-of"><code>xsl:copy-of</code></a>, or <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a>
instruction, or the <code>xsl:validation</code> attribute
of a literal result element,
has the effective value <code>lax</code>, and
schema validity assessment concludes that the element or attribute is invalid, a type
error occurs. As with other type
errors, the error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled statically if it can be detected statically.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1540"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1540</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if an <code>[xsl:]type</code>
attribute is defined for a constructed element or attribute, and the
outcome of schema validity assessment against that type is that the <code>validity</code> property
of that element or attribute information item is other than <code>valid</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1545"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1545</span></a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> occurs if a <code>type</code> or <code>validation</code>
attribute is defined (explicitly or implicitly) for an instruction that constructs a new attribute node, if the
effect of this is to cause the attribute value to be validated against a type that is derived from,
or constructed by list or union from, the primitive types <code>xs:QName</code> or
<code>xs:NOTATION</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1550"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1550</span></a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> occurs
[when a document node is validated]
unless the children of the document node comprise
exactly one element node, no text nodes, and zero or more comment and processing instruction nodes,
in any order.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTTE1555"><span class="error">ERR XTTE1555</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="type errors" href="#dt-type-error">type error</a> if, when validating a document
node, document-level constraints are not satisfied. These constraints include
identity constraints (<code>xs:unique</code>, <code>xs:key</code>,
and <code>xs:keyref</code>) and ID/IDREF constraints.</p></dd></dl><p><b>Dynamic errors</b></p><dl><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0030"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0030</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of an attribute written
using curly brackets, in
a position where an <a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a> is
permitted, is a value
that is not one of the permitted values for that attribute.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when
any XPath expressions within the curly brackets can be evaluated statically), then the processor may
optionally signal this as a static error.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0040"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0040</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies a template name that does not match the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of a named template defined in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0045"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0045</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies an initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a>
(other than the default mode)
that does not match the
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> in the <code>mode</code> attribute of any
template defined in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0047"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0047</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the invocation of the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> specifies both an initial <a title="mode" href="#dt-mode">mode</a> and an initial
template.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0050"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0050</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the stylesheet that is invoked declares a visible
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>
with <code>required="yes"</code> and no value for
this parameter is supplied during the invocation of the stylesheet. A stylesheet parameter
is visible if it is not masked by another global variable or parameter with the same name and higher
<a title="import precedence" href="#dt-import-precedence">import precedence</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0060"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0060</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a title="initial template" href="#dt-initial-template">initial template</a> defines a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
that specifies <code>required="yes"</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0160"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0160</span></a></dt><dd><p>If an implementation does not support backwards-compatible
behavior, then it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if any element is evaluated that enables
backwards-compatible behavior.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE0270"><span class="error">ERR XTRE0270</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if
this [the process of finding an <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> or
<a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a> declaration to match an element in the source document]
leaves more than one match, unless all the matched declarations are equivalent (that is,
they are all <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> or they are all <a href="#element-preserve-space"><code>xsl:preserve-space</code></a>).
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to select, from the matches that are left, the
one that occurs last in
<a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0290"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0290</span></a></dt><dd><p>Where the result of evaluating an XPath expression (or an
attribute value template) is required to be a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>,
then unless otherwise specified
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the <a title="defining element" href="#dt-defining-element">defining element</a> has
no namespace node whose name matches the prefix of the <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
This error <span class="verb">may</span> be signaled as a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if the value of the expression can be determined statically.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0410"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0410</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence used to construct the content of an element node
contains a namespace node or attribute node that is preceded
in the sequence by a node that is neither a namespace node nor an attribute node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0420"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0420</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence used to construct the content of a document node
contains a namespace node or attribute node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0430"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0430</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence contains two or more namespace nodes having the same name but different
<a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string values</a> (that is,
namespace nodes that map the same prefix to different namespace URIs).</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0440"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0440</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the result sequence contains a namespace node with no name and the element node being constructed has a
null namespace URI (that is, it is an error to define a default namespace when the element is in no namespace).
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE0540"><span class="error">ERR XTRE0540</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the conflict resolution algorithm for template rules
leaves more than one matching template
rule.
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to select, from the matching
template rules that are left, the one that occurs last in
<a title="declaration order" href="#dt-declaration-order">declaration order</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0560"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0560</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> or <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> is evaluated when the
<a title="current template rule" href="#dt-current-template-rule">current template rule</a> is null.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0610"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0610</span></a></dt><dd><p>If an optional parameter has no <code>select</code>
attribute and has an empty <a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a>,
and if there is an <code>as</code> attribute, then the default value of the parameter
is an empty sequence. If the empty sequence is not a valid instance of the required type
defined in the <code>as</code> attribute, then the parameter is treated as a required
parameter, which means that it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the caller supplies no value for the parameter.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0640"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0640</span></a></dt><dd><p>In general, a <a title="circularity" href="#dt-circularity">circularity</a>
in a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0700"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0700</span></a></dt><dd><p>In other
cases, [with <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>,
<a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a>,
and <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>, or <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> with <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a>
]
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the template that is invoked declares a <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template parameter</a>
with <code>required="yes"</code> and no value for
this parameter is supplied by the calling instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE0795"><span class="error">ERR XTRE0795</span></a></dt><dd><p>It
is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the name of a constructed attribute is <code>xml:space</code> and the value is not
either <code>default</code> or <code>preserve</code>.
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to construct
the attribute with the value as requested.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0820"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0820</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute [of the
<a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction] is not a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0830"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0830</span></a></dt><dd><p>In the
case of an <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction
with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>
whose prefix is not declared in an in-scope namespace declaration for the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a>
instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0835"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0835</span></a></dt><dd><p>
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>namespace</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> instruction]
is not in the lexical space of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></span>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0850"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0850</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute [of an
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction]
is not a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0855"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0855</span></a></dt><dd><p>In the case
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is the string <code>xmlns</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0860"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0860</span></a></dt><dd><p>In the case
of an <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction
with no <code>namespace</code> attribute,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>name</code> attribute is a <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>
whose prefix is not declared in an in-scope namespace declaration for the
<a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0865"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0865</span></a></dt><dd><p>
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>namespace</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> instruction]
is not in the lexical space of the <code>xs:anyURI</code> data type
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code></span>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0890"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0890</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the
<code>name</code> attribute [of the <a href="#element-processing-instruction"><code>xsl:processing-instruction</code></a>
instruction] is not both an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup> and a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-PITarget">PITarget</a><sup><small>XML</small></sup>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0905"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0905</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a non-recoverable dynamic error if the
string value of the new namespace node is not valid in the lexical space of the
data type <code>xs:anyURI</code>,
<span>or if it is the string <code>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</code>.</span></p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0920"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0920</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the
<code>name</code> attribute [of the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction]
is neither a zero-length string nor an <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName">NCName</a><sup><small>Names</small></sup>, or
if it is <code>xmlns</code>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0925"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0925</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a>
instruction generates a namespace node whose name is <code>xml</code> and whose string value is
not <code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code>, or a namespace node whose string value is
<code>http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</code> and whose name is
not <code>xml</code>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0930"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0930</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if
evaluating the <code>select</code> attribute or the contained
<a title="sequence constructor" href="#dt-sequence-constructor">sequence constructor</a> of an
<a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction
results in a zero-length string.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE0980"><span class="error">ERR XTDE0980</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if any undiscarded item in the atomized sequence supplied
as the value of the <code>value</code> attribute of <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
cannot be converted to an integer, or if the resulting integer is less than
0 (zero). </p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1030"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1030</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if, for any
<a title="sort key component" href="#dt-sort-key-component">sort key component</a>,
the set of <a title="sort key value" href="#dt-sort-key-value">sort key values</a> evaluated for all the items in the
<a title="initial sequence" href="#dt-initial-sequence">initial sequence</a>, after any type conversion requested,
contains a pair of ordinary values for which the result of the
XPath <code>lt</code> operator is an error.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1035"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1035</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <code>collation</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> (after resolving against
the base URI) is not a URI that is recognized
by the implementation as referring to a collation.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1110"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1110</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the collation URI specified to <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
(after resolving against the base URI)
is a collation that is not recognized
by the implementation. (For notes, <span class="error">[see <a href="#err-XTDE1035">ERR XTDE1035</a>]</span>.)</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1140"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1140</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>regex</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction]
does not conform to the <span class="verb">required</span> syntax for
regular expressions, as specified in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
If the regular expression is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1145"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1145</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>flags</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction]
has a value other than the values defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.
If the value of the attribute is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1150"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1150</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
<a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of the <code>regex</code> attribute
[of the <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> instruction]
is a regular expression that matches a zero-length string: or more specifically, if the regular expression <code>$r</code>
and flags <code>$f</code> are such that <code>matches("", $r, $f)</code> returns true.
If the regular expression is known
statically (for example, if the attribute does not contain any <a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a> enclosed in curly brackets)
then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> signal the error as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE1160"><span class="error">ERR XTRE1160</span></a></dt><dd><p>When a URI reference
[supplied to the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function]
contains a fragment identifier,
it is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a> if the media type is not one that is recognized by the
processor, or if the fragment identifier does not conform to the rules for fragment identifiers
for that media type, or if the fragment identifier selects something other than a sequence of
nodes (for example, if it selects a range of characters within a text node).
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the fragment
identifier and return the document node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1170"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1170</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a URI
[supplied in the first argument to the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function]
contains a fragment identifier, or if it cannot be used to retrieve a resource
containing text.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1190"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1190</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a resource
[retrieved using the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function]
contains octets that cannot be decoded into Unicode characters
using the specified encoding, or if the resulting characters are not permitted XML characters.
This includes the case where the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> does not support
the requested encoding.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1200"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1200</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the second argument of the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function is omitted and the
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> cannot infer the encoding using
external information and the encoding is not UTF-8.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1260"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1260</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the value
[of the first argument to the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function] is
not a valid QName, or if there is no
namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the QName, or if the
name obtained by expanding the QName is not the same as the expanded
name of any <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> declaration in the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1270"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1270</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
to call the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function with two arguments if there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or if the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node; or to call
the function with three arguments if the root of the tree containing the node supplied in the third
argument is not a document node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1280"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1280</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the name specified as the
<code>$decimal-format-name</code> argument [ to the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function]
is not a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>, or
if its prefix has not been declared in an in-scope namespace declaration, or
if the <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> does not contain a declaration of a decimal-format with a matching
<a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1310"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1310</span></a></dt><dd><p>The
<a title="picture string" href="#dt-picture-string">picture string</a>
[supplied to the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function]
<span class="verb">must</span> conform to the following rules. [ See full specification.]
It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the picture string
does not satisfy these rules.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1340"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1340</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the syntax of the picture [used for date/time formatting]
is incorrect.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1350"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1350</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if a component specifier within the picture [used for date/time formatting]
refers to components that are not available in the given type of <code>$value</code>,
for example if the picture supplied to the <a href="#function-format-time"><code>format-time</code></a> refers
to the year, month, or day component.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1360"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1360</span></a></dt><dd><p>If the <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a> function is evaluated
within an expression that is evaluated when the context item is undefined, a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> occurs.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1370"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1370</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-uri"><code>unparsed-entity-uri</code></a> function is called when there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or when the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1380"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1380</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-public-id"><code>unparsed-entity-public-id</code></a> function is called
when there is no <a title="context node" href="#dt-context-node">context node</a>,
or when the root of the tree containing the context node is not a document node.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1390"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1390</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the value
[supplied as the <code>$property-name</code> argument to the
<a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function] is
not a valid QName, or if there is no
namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the QName.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTMM9000"><span class="error">ERR XTMM9000</span></a></dt><dd><p>When
a transformation is terminated by use of <code>xsl:message terminate="yes"</code>, the effect
is the same as when a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> occurs
during the transformation.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1400"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1400</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the argument
[passed to the <a href="#function-function-available"><code>function-available</code></a> function]
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1420"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1420</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the arguments supplied to a call on an extension function do
not satisfy the rules defined for that particular extension function, or if the
extension function reports an error, or if the result of the extension function
cannot be converted to an XPath value.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1425"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1425</span></a></dt><dd><p>When
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled,
it is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> to evaluate an extension function call if no implementation
of the extension function is available.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1428"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1428</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the argument
[passed to the <a href="#function-type-available"><code>type-available</code></a> function]
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1440"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1440</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a> if the
argument
[passed to the <a href="#function-element-available"><code>element-available</code></a> function]
does not evaluate to a string that is a valid <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>,
or if there is no namespace declaration in scope for the prefix of the <a title="QName" href="#dt-qname">QName</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the argument is
supplied as a string literal), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1450"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1450</span></a></dt><dd><p>When a
<a title="processor" href="#dt-processor">processor</a> performs fallback for an
<a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instruction</a> that is not recognized,
if the instruction element has one or more
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children, then the content of each of the
<a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children <span class="verb">must</span> be evaluated; it is a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if it has no <a href="#element-fallback"><code>xsl:fallback</code></a> children.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1460"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1460</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> if the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a>
of the <code>format</code> attribute
[of an <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> element]
is not a valid <a title="lexical QName" href="#dt-lexical-qname">lexical QName</a>,
or if it does not match the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> of an
<a title="output definition" href="#dt-output-definition">output definition</a> in the
<a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a>.
If the processor is able to detect the error statically (for example, when the <code>format</code> attribute
contains no curly brackets), then the processor <span class="verb">may</span> optionally signal this
as a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1480"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1480</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> to evaluate the <a href="#element-result-document"><code>xsl:result-document</code></a> instruction in
<a title="temporary output state" href="#dt-temporary-output-state">temporary output state</a>.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1490"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1490</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic
error</a> for a transformation to generate two or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> with the same URI.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE1495"><span class="error">ERR XTRE1495</span></a></dt><dd><p>It
is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic
error</a> for a transformation to generate two or more
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a>
with URIs that identify the same physical resource. The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a>
is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>,
since it may be impossible for the processor to detect the error.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE1500"><span class="error">ERR XTRE1500</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
for a <a title="stylesheet" href="#dt-stylesheet">stylesheet</a> to write to an external resource and read from the same resource during a single
transformation, whether or not the same URI is used to access the resource in both cases.
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The
<a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is <a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a>:
implementations are not <span class="verb">required</span> to detect the error condition.
Note that if the error is not detected, it is undefined whether the document that is read from the resource
reflects its state before or after the result tree is written.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE1620"><span class="error">ERR XTRE1620</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
if an
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction specifies that
output escaping is to be disabled and the implementation does not
support this.
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTRE1630"><span class="error">ERR XTRE1630</span></a></dt><dd><p>It is
a <a title="recoverable error" href="#dt-recoverable-error">recoverable dynamic error</a>
if an
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> or <a href="#element-text"><code>xsl:text</code></a> instruction specifies that
output escaping is to be disabled when writing to a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a> that is
not being serialized.
<br/><i>    Action: </i>The <a title="optional recovery action" href="#dt-optional-recovery-action">optional recovery action</a> is to ignore the
<code>disable-output-escaping</code> attribute.</p></dd><dt><a href="#err-XTDE1665"><span class="error">ERR XTDE1665</span></a></dt><dd><p>A
<a title="basic XSLT processor" href="#dt-basic-xslt-processor">basic XSLT processor</a>
<span class="verb">must</span> raise a
<a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>
if the input to the processor includes a node with a <a title="type annotation" href="#dt-annotation">type annotation</a> other than
<code>xs:untyped</code> or <code>xs:untypedAtomic</code>, or an atomic value
of a type other than those which a basic XSLT processor supports.</p></dd></dl></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="implementation-defined-features" id="implementation-defined-features"/>F Checklist of Implementation-Defined Features (Non-Normative)</h2><p>This appendix provides a summary of XSLT language features whose effect is
explicitly <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>.
The conformance rules (see <a href="#conformance"><i>21 Conformance</i></a>) require vendors to provide documentation
that explains how these choices have been exercised.</p><ol><li><p>The way in which an XSLT processor is invoked,
and the way in which values are supplied for
the source document, starting node,
<a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameters</a>, and
<a title="base output URI" href="#dt-base-output-uri">base output URI</a>,
are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#initiating"><i>2.3 Initiating a Transformation</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The mechanisms for creating new extension instructions and extension
functions are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#extensibility"><i>2.7 Extensibility</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>Where the specification provides a choice between signaling a dynamic
error or recovering, the decision that is made
(but not the recovery action itself) is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#errors"><i>2.9 Error Handling</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined whether type errors are signaled statically. (See <a href="#errors"><i>2.9 Error Handling</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The set of namespaces that are specially recognized by the implementation
(for example, for user-defined
data elements, and <a title="extension attribute" href="#dt-extension-attribute">extension attributes</a>) is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The effect of user-defined
data elements whose name is in a namespace recognized by the implementation
is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#user-defined-top-level"><i>3.6.2 User-defined Data Elements</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined whether an XSLT 2.0 processor supports
backwards-compatible behavior. (See <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined
what forms of URI reference are acceptable in the <code>href</code>
attribute of the <a href="#element-include"><code>xsl:include</code></a> and <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a> elements,
for example, the URI schemes that may be used, the forms of
fragment identifier that may be used, and the media types that
are supported. (See <a href="#locating-modules"><i>3.10.1 Locating Stylesheet Modules</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>An implementation may define mechanisms, above and beyond <a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a>
that allow <a title="schema component" href="#dt-schema-component">schema components</a> such as type definitions to
be made available within a stylesheet. (See <a href="#built-in-types"><i>3.13 Built-in Types</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined which versions of XML and XML Namespaces (1.0 and/or 1.1) are supported. (See <a href="#xml-versions"><i>4.1 XML Versions</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>Limits on the value space of primitive data types, where not fixed
by <a href="#xmlschema-2">[XML Schema Part 2]</a>, are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#limits"><i>4.6 Limits</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The implicit timezone for a transformation is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#evaluation-context"><i>5.4.3.2 Other components of the XPath Dynamic Context</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>If an <code>xml:id</code> attribute that has not been subjected to attribute value
normalization is copied from a source tree to a result tree, it is implementation-defined whether
attribute value normalization will be applied during the copy process. (See <a href="#shallow-copy"><i>11.9.1 Shallow Copy</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The numbering sequences supported by the <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>
instructions, beyond those defined in this specification, are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>There <span class="verb">may</span> be implementation-defined upper bounds on the numbers that
can be formatted by <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> using any particular numbering sequence. (See <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The set of
languages for which numbering is supported by <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>, and
the method of choosing a default language, are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#convert"><i>12.3 Number to String Conversion Attributes</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>If the <code>data-type</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
has a value other than <code>text</code> or <code>number</code>, the effect is
implementation-defined. (See <a href="#comparing-sort-keys"><i>13.1.2 Comparing Sort Key Values</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The facilities for defining collations and allocating URIs to identify them
are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#collating-sequences"><i>13.1.3 Sorting Using Collations</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The algorithm used by <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> to locate a collation,
given the values of the <code>lang</code> and <code>case-order</code> attributes,
is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#collating-sequences"><i>13.1.3 Sorting Using Collations</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The set of media types recognized by the processor, for the purpose of
interpreting fragment identifiers in URI references passed to the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a>
function, is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#document"><i>16.1 Multiple Source Documents</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The set of encodings recognized by the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function,
other than <code>utf-8</code> and <code>utf-16</code>, is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. (See <a href="#unparsed-text"><i>16.2 Reading Text Files</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>If no encoding is specified on a call to the <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function,
the processor <span class="verb">may</span> use <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>
heuristics to determine the likely encoding. (See <a href="#unparsed-text"><i>16.2 Reading Text Files</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The set of languages, calendars, and countries that are supported in the
<a title="date formatting function" href="#dt-date-formatting-function">date formatting functions</a> is
implementation-defined. If any of these arguments is omitted or set to an empty sequence,
the default is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#lang-cal-country"><i>16.5.2 The Language, Calendar, and Country Arguments</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The choice of the names and abbreviations used in any given language for
calendar units such as days of the week and months of the year is
<a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a>. (See <a href="#lang-cal-country"><i>16.5.2 The Language, Calendar, and Country Arguments</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The values returned by the <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a>
function, and the names of the additional properties that are recognized, are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#system-property"><i>16.6.5 system-property</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The destination and formatting of messages written using the
<a href="#element-message"><code>xsl:message</code></a> instruction are implementation-defined. (See <a href="#message"><i>17 Messages</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The effect of an extension function returning a string containing
characters that are not legal in XML is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#calling-extension-functions"><i>18.1.2 Calling Extension Functions</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The way in which external objects are represented in the type
system is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#external-objects"><i>18.1.3 External Objects</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The way in which a final result tree is delivered to an
application is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#result-trees"><i>19 Final Result Trees</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>Implementations <span class="verb">may</span> provide additional mechanisms allowing users to define the way in which
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result trees</a> are processed. (See <a href="#creating-result-trees"><i>19.1 Creating Final Result Trees</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>If serialization is supported, then the location to which a
<a title="final result tree" href="#dt-final-result-tree">final result tree</a>
is serialized is implementation-defined, subject to the constraint that relative URIs used to reference
one tree from another remain valid. (See <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The default value of the <code>encoding</code> attribute of the
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> element is implementation-defined. (See <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined which versions of XML, HTML, and XHTML
are supported in the <code>version</code> attribute of the
<a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> declaration. (See <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>The default value of the <code>byte-order-mark</code> serialization
parameter is implementation-defined in the case of UTF-8 encoding. (See <a href="#serialization"><i>20 Serialization</i></a>)</p></li><li><p>It is implementation-defined whether, and under what circumstances,
disabling output escaping is supported. (See <a href="#disable-output-escaping"><i>20.2 Disabling Output Escaping</i></a>)</p></li></ol></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="schema-for-xslt" id="schema-for-xslt"/>G Schema for XSLT Stylesheets (Non-Normative)</h2><p>The following schema describes the structure of an XSLT stylesheet module. It does
not define all the constraints that apply to a stylesheet (for example, it does not attempt
to define a data type that precisely represents attributes containing XPath
<a title="expression" href="#dt-expression">expressions</a>).
However, every valid stylesheet module conforms to this schema,
unless it contains elements that invoke
<a title="forwards-compatible behavior" href="#dt-forwards-compatible-behavior">forwards-compatible-behavior</a>.</p><p>A copy of this schema is available at
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/schema-for-xslt20.xsd">http://www.w3.org/2007/schema-for-xslt20.xsd</a>
</p><pre>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" elementFormDefault="qualified"&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
This is a schema for XSLT 2.0 stylesheets.
It defines all the elements that appear in the XSLT namespace; it also
provides hooks that allow the inclusion of user-defined literal result elements,
extension instructions, and top-level data elements.
The schema is derived (with kind permission) from a schema for XSLT 1.0 stylesheets
produced by Asir S Vedamuthu of WebMethods Inc.
This schema is available for use under the conditions of the W3C Software License
published at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software-19980720
The schema is organized as follows:
PART A: definitions of complex types and model groups used as the basis
for element definitions
PART B: definitions of individual XSLT elements
PART C: definitions for literal result elements
PART D: definitions of simple types used in attribute definitions
This schema does not attempt to define all the constraints that apply to a valid
XSLT 2.0 stylesheet module. It is the intention that all valid stylesheet modules
should conform to this schema; however, the schema is non-normative and in the event
of any conflict, the text of the Recommendation takes precedence.
This schema does not implement the special rules that apply when a stylesheet
has sections that use forwards-compatible-mode. In this mode, setting version="3.0"
allows elements from the XSLT namespace to be used that are not defined in XSLT 2.0.
Simplified stylesheets (those with a literal result element as the outermost element)
will validate against this schema only if validation starts in lax mode.
This version is dated 2007-03-16
Authors: Michael H Kay, Saxonica Limited
Jeni Tennison, Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd.
2007-03-15: added xsl:document element
revised xsl:sequence element
see http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4237
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;!--
The declaration of xml:space and xml:lang may need to be commented out because
of problems processing the schema using various tools
--&gt;
&lt;xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/&gt;
&lt;!--
An XSLT stylesheet may contain an in-line schema within an xsl:import-schema element,
so the Schema for schemas needs to be imported
--&gt;
&lt;xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd"/&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
PART A: definitions of complex types and model groups used as the basis
for element definitions
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="generic-element-type" mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="default-collation" type="xsl:uri-list"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="exclude-result-prefixes" type="xsl:prefix-list-or-all"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="extension-element-prefixes" type="xsl:prefix-list"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-when" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="xpath-default-namespace" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="versioned-element-type" mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:generic-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:decimal" use="optional"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="element-only-versioned-element-type" mixed="false"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:group name="sequence-constructor-group"&gt;
&lt;xs:choice&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:variable"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:instruction"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:result-elements"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:choice&gt;
&lt;/xs:group&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="declaration" type="xsl:generic-element-type" abstract="true"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="instruction" type="xsl:versioned-element-type" abstract="true"/&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
PART B: definitions of individual XSLT elements
Elements are listed in alphabetical order.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="analyze-string" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:matching-substring" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:non-matching-substring" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:fallback" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="regex" type="xsl:avt" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="flags" type="xsl:avt" default=""/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="apply-imports" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:with-param" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="apply-templates" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:sort"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:with-param"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:choice&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" default="child::node()"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="mode" type="xsl:mode"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="attribute" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:avt" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="namespace" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="separator" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="attribute-set" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:attribute"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-attribute-sets" type="xsl:QNames" default=""/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="call-template" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:with-param" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="character-map" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:output-character" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-character-maps" type="xsl:QNames" default=""/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="choose" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:when" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:otherwise" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="comment" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="copy" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="copy-namespaces" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="inherit-namespaces" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-attribute-sets" type="xsl:QNames" default=""/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="copy-of" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="copy-namespaces" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="document" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="decimal-format" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="decimal-separator" type="xsl:char" default="."/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="grouping-separator" type="xsl:char" default=","/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="infinity" type="xs:string" default="Infinity"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="minus-sign" type="xsl:char" default="-"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="NaN" type="xs:string" default="NaN"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="percent" type="xsl:char" default="%"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="per-mille" type="xsl:char" default="â&#128;°"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="zero-digit" type="xsl:char" default="0"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="digit" type="xsl:char" default="#"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="pattern-separator" type="xsl:char" default=";"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="element" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:avt" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="namespace" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="inherit-namespaces" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-attribute-sets" type="xsl:QNames" default=""/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="fallback" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction" type="xsl:sequence-constructor"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="for-each" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:sort" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="for-each-group" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:sort" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="group-by" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="group-adjacent" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="group-starting-with" type="xsl:pattern"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="group-ending-with" type="xsl:pattern"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="collation" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="function" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:param" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="override" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="as" type="xsl:sequence-type" default="item()*"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="if" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="test" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="import"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="href" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="import-schema" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xs:schema" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="namespace" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="schema-location" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="include" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="href" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="key" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="match" type="xsl:pattern" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="collation" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="matching-substring" type="xsl:sequence-constructor"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="message" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="terminate" type="xsl:avt" default="no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="namespace" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:avt" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="namespace-alias" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="stylesheet-prefix" type="xsl:prefix-or-default" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="result-prefix" type="xsl:prefix-or-default" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="next-match" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:with-param"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:fallback"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:choice&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="non-matching-substring" type="xsl:sequence-constructor"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="number" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="value" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="level" type="xsl:level" default="single"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="count" type="xsl:pattern"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="from" type="xsl:pattern"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="format" type="xsl:avt" default="1"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="lang" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="letter-value" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="ordinal" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="grouping-separator" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="grouping-size" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="otherwise" type="xsl:sequence-constructor"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="output" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:generic-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="method" type="xsl:method"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="byte-order-mark" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="cdata-section-elements" type="xsl:QNames"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="doctype-public" type="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="doctype-system" type="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="encoding" type="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="escape-uri-attributes" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="include-content-type" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="indent" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="media-type" type="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="normalization-form" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="omit-xml-declaration" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="standalone" type="xsl:yes-or-no-or-omit"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="undeclare-prefixes" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-character-maps" type="xsl:QNames"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:NMTOKEN"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="output-character"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="character" type="xsl:char" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="string" type="xs:string" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="param"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="as" type="xsl:sequence-type"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="required" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="tunnel" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="perform-sort" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:sort" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="preserve-space" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="elements" type="xsl:nametests" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="processing-instruction" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:avt" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="result-document" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="format" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="href" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="method" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="byte-order-mark" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="cdata-section-elements" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="doctype-public" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="doctype-system" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="encoding" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="escape-uri-attributes" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="include-content-type" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="indent" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="media-type" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="normalization-form" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="omit-xml-declaration" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="standalone" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="undeclare-prefixes" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-character-maps" type="xsl:QNames"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="output-version" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="sequence" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:fallback"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="sort"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="lang" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="data-type" type="xsl:avt" default="text"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="order" type="xsl:avt" default="ascending"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="case-order" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="collation" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="stable" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="strip-space" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="elements" type="xsl:nametests" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="stylesheet" substitutionGroup="xsl:transform"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="template" substitutionGroup="xsl:declaration"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:param" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:group ref="xsl:sequence-constructor-group" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="match" type="xsl:pattern"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="priority" type="xs:decimal"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="mode" type="xsl:modes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="as" type="xsl:sequence-type" default="item()*"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="text-element-base-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleContent&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="text" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:text-element-base-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="disable-output-escaping" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType name="transform-element-base-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:element-only-versioned-element-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:decimal" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="transform"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:transform-element-base-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:import" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/&gt;
&lt;xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:declaration"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:variable"/&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:param"/&gt;
&lt;xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt; &lt;!-- weaker than XSLT 1.0 --&gt;
&lt;/xs:choice&gt;
&lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="default-validation" type="xsl:validation-strip-or-preserve" default="strip"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="input-type-annotations" type="xsl:input-type-annotations-type" default="unspecified"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="value-of" substitutionGroup="xsl:instruction"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="separator" type="xsl:avt"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="disable-output-escaping" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="variable"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression" use="optional"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="as" type="xsl:sequence-type" use="optional"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="when"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="test" type="xsl:expression" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="with-param"&gt;
&lt;xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;xs:complexContent mixed="true"&gt;
&lt;xs:extension base="xsl:sequence-constructor"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="name" type="xsl:QName" use="required"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="select" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="as" type="xsl:sequence-type"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="tunnel" type="xsl:yes-or-no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:extension&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexContent&gt;
&lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
&lt;/xs:element&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
PART C: definition of literal result elements
There are three ways to define the literal result elements
permissible in a stylesheet.
(a) do nothing. This allows any element to be used as a literal
result element, provided it is not in the XSLT namespace
(b) declare all permitted literal result elements as members
of the xsl:literal-result-element substitution group
(c) redefine the model group xsl:result-elements to accommodate
all permitted literal result elements.
Literal result elements are allowed to take certain attributes
in the XSLT namespace. These are defined in the attribute group
literal-result-element-attributes, which can be included in the
definition of any literal result element.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:element name="literal-result-element" abstract="true" type="xs:anyType"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attributeGroup name="literal-result-element-attributes"&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="default-collation" form="qualified" type="xsl:uri-list"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="extension-element-prefixes" form="qualified" type="xsl:prefixes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="exclude-result-prefixes" form="qualified" type="xsl:prefixes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="xpath-default-namespace" form="qualified" type="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="inherit-namespaces" form="qualified" type="xsl:yes-or-no" default="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-attribute-sets" form="qualified" type="xsl:QNames" default=""/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="use-when" form="qualified" type="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="version" form="qualified" type="xs:decimal"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="type" form="qualified" type="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;xs:attribute name="validation" form="qualified" type="xsl:validation-type"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:attributeGroup&gt;
&lt;xs:group name="result-elements"&gt;
&lt;xs:choice&gt;
&lt;xs:element ref="xsl:literal-result-element"/&gt;
&lt;xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;xs:any namespace="##local" processContents="lax"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:choice&gt;
&lt;/xs:group&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
PART D: definitions of simple types used in stylesheet attributes
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;!-- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="avt"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
This type is used for all attributes that allow an attribute value template.
The general rules for the syntax of attribute value templates, and the specific
rules for each such attribute, are described in the XSLT 2.0 Recommendation.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:string"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="char"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
A string containing exactly one character.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:string"&gt;
&lt;xs:length value="1"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="expression"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
An XPath 2.0 expression.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value=".+"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="input-type-annotations-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
Describes how type annotations in source documents are handled.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="preserve"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="strip"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="unspecified"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="level"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
The level attribute of xsl:number:
one of single, multiple, or any.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:NCName"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="single"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="multiple"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="any"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="mode"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
The mode attribute of xsl:apply-templates:
either a QName, or #current, or #default.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:union memberTypes="xsl:QName"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#default"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#current"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="modes"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
The mode attribute of xsl:template:
either a list, each member being either a QName or #default;
or the value #all
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:union&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:list&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:union memberTypes="xsl:QName"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#default"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:list&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#all"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="nametests"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
A list of NameTests, as defined in the XPath 2.0 Recommendation.
Each NameTest is either a QName, or "*", or "prefix:*", or "*:localname"
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:list&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:union memberTypes="xsl:QName"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="*"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value="\i\c*:\*"/&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value="\*:\i\c*"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:list&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="prefixes"&gt;
&lt;xs:list itemType="xs:NCName"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="prefix-list-or-all"&gt;
&lt;xs:union memberTypes="xsl:prefix-list"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#all"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="prefix-list"&gt;
&lt;xs:list itemType="xsl:prefix-or-default"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="method"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
The method attribute of xsl:output:
Either one of the recognized names "xml", "xhtml", "html", "text",
or a QName that must include a prefix.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:union&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:NCName"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="xml"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="xhtml"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="html"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="text"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:QName"&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value="\c*:\c*"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="pattern"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
A match pattern as defined in the XSLT 2.0 Recommendation.
The syntax for patterns is a restricted form of the syntax for
XPath 2.0 expressions.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:expression"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="prefix-or-default"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
Either a namespace prefix, or #default.
Used in the xsl:namespace-alias element.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:union memberTypes="xs:NCName"&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="#default"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:union&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="QNames"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
A list of QNames.
Used in the [xsl:]use-attribute-sets attribute of various elements,
and in the cdata-section-elements attribute of xsl:output
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:list itemType="xsl:QName"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="QName"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
A QName.
This schema does not use the built-in type xs:QName, but rather defines its own
QName type. Although xs:QName would define the correct validation on these attributes,
a schema processor would expand unprefixed QNames incorrectly when constructing the PSVI,
because (as defined in XML Schema errata) an unprefixed xs:QName is assumed to be in
the default namespace, which is not the correct assumption for XSLT.
The data type is defined as a restriction of the built-in type Name, restricted
so that it can only contain one colon which must not be the first or last character.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:Name"&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value="([^:]+:)?[^:]+"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="sequence-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
The description of a data type, conforming to the
SequenceType production defined in the XPath 2.0 Recommendation
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:pattern value=".+"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="uri-list"&gt;
&lt;xs:list itemType="xs:anyURI"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="validation-strip-or-preserve"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
Describes different ways of type-annotating an element or attribute.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xsl:validation-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="preserve"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="strip"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="validation-type"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
Describes different ways of type-annotating an element or attribute.
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="strict"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="lax"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="preserve"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="strip"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="yes-or-no"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
One of the values "yes" or "no".
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="no"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;xs:simpleType name="yes-or-no-or-omit"&gt;
&lt;xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:documentation&gt;
One of the values "yes" or "no" or "omit".
&lt;/xs:documentation&gt;
&lt;/xs:annotation&gt;
&lt;xs:restriction base="xs:token"&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="yes"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="no"/&gt;
&lt;xs:enumeration value="omit"/&gt;
&lt;/xs:restriction&gt;
&lt;/xs:simpleType&gt;
&lt;/xs:schema&gt;</pre></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="acknowledgements" id="acknowledgements"/>H Acknowledgements (Non-Normative)</h2><p>This specification was developed and approved for publication by the
W3C XSL Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification does not
necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its approval.</p><p>The chair of the XSL WG is Sharon Adler, IBM, and the W3C staff contact is Carine Bournez.
The XSL Working Group
includes two overlapping teams working on XSLT and XSL Formatting Objects. The
members of the XSL WG engaged in XSLT activities at the time of publication of this second edition (with
their present affiliation) are:</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5"><thead><tr><th>Participant</th><th>Affiliation</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Oliver Becker</td><td>Invited Expert</td></tr><tr><td>Anders Berglund</td><td>Invited Expert</td></tr><tr><td>Scott Boag</td><td>IBM</td></tr><tr><td>Petr Cimprich</td><td>U-Turn Media Group</td></tr><tr><td>Russell Davoli</td><td>Intel</td></tr><tr><td>Nikolay Fiykov</td><td>Nokia</td></tr><tr><td>Edward Jiang</td><td>Microsoft</td></tr><tr><td>Michael Kay</td><td>Invited Expert</td></tr><tr><td>Jirka Kosek</td><td>Invited Expert</td></tr><tr><td>Zarella Rendon</td><td>PTC-Arbortext</td></tr><tr><td>Michael Sperberg-McQueen</td><td>W3C</td></tr><tr><td>Howard Tsoi</td><td>Intel</td></tr><tr><td>Mohamed Zergaoui</td><td>Innovimax</td></tr><tr><td>Henry Zongaro</td><td>IBM</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Working Group wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals, who in most cases
are former members of the Working Group. They are listed with their affiliations at the time
they were active participants:</p><blockquote><p>Colin Adams, Invited Expert<br/>James Clark, Invited Expert<br/>K Karun, Oracle<br/>Evan Lenz, XYZFind<br/>Jonathan Marsh, Microsoft<br/>David Marston, IBM<br/>Steve Muench, Oracle<br/>Kristoffer Rose, IBM<br/>Mark Scardina, Oracle<br/>Jeni Tennison, Invited Expert<br/>Joanne Tong, IBM<br/>Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh<br/>Norm Walsh, Sun Microsystems<br/>Steve Zilles, Adobe</p></blockquote><p>This specification builds on the success of the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation.
For a list of contributors to XSLT 1.0, see <a href="#xslt">[XSLT 1.0]</a>.</p></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="requirements-checklist" id="requirements-checklist"/>I Checklist of Requirements (Non-Normative)</h2><p>This section provides a checklist of progress against the published
XSLT 2.0 Requirements document (see <a href="#xslt20req">[XSLT 2.0 Requirements]</a>).</p><p><b><i>Requirement 1</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Maintain Backwards Compatibility with XSLT 1.1
[Read this as "with XSLT 1.0"]</p><p>Any stylesheet whose behavior is fully defined in XSLT
1.0 and which generates no errors will produce the same result tree under
XSLT 2.0</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>See <a href="#incompatibilities"><i>J.1 Incompatible Changes</i></a>
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 2</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Match Elements with Null Values</p><p>A stylesheet should be able to match elements and attributes whose value
is explicitly null. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This has been handled as an XPath 2.0 requirement. A new function
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-nilled"><code>nilled</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> is available to test whether an element has been marked
as nil after schema validation.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 3</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Allow Included Documents to "Encapsulate" Local Stylesheets</p><p>XSLT 2.0 <span class="verb">should</span> define a mechanism to allow the templates in a stylesheet
associated with a secondary source document, to be imported and used
to format the included fragment, taking precedence over any applicable
templates in the current stylesheet.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The facility to define modes has been generalized, making it easier
to define a distinct set of template rules for processing a particular document.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 4</i></b></p><p>Could Support Accessing Infoset Items for XML Declaration</p><p>A stylesheet COULD be able to access information like the version and
encoding from the XML declaration of a document.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>No new facilities have been provided in this area, because
this information is not available in the data model.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 5</i></b></p><p>Could Provide QName Aware String Functions</p><p>Users manipulating documents (for example stylesheets, schemas) that have
QName-valued element or attribute content need functions that take a
string containing a QName as their argument, convert it to an <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a>
using either the namespace declarations in scope at that point in the
stylesheet, or the namespace declarations in scope for a specific source
node, and return properties of the <a title="expanded-QName" href="#dt-expanded-qname">expanded-QName</a> such as its namespace URI
and local name.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>Functions operating on QNames are included in the XPath 2.0
Functions and Operators document: see <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 6</i></b></p><p>Could Enable Constructing a Namespace with Computed Name</p><p>Provide an <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> analog to
<a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> for constructing
a namespace node with a computed prefix and URI.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>An <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> instruction has been added: see
<a href="#creating-namespace-nodes"><i>11.7 Creating Namespace Nodes</i></a>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 7</i></b></p><p>Could Simplify Resolving Prefix Conflicts in QName-Valued Attributes</p><p>XSLT 2.0 could simplify the renaming of conflicting namespace prefixes in
result tree fragments, particularly for attributes declared in a schema
as being QNames. Once the processor knows an attribute value
is a QName, an XSLT processor <span class="verb">should</span> be able to rename prefixes and
generate namespace declarations to preserve the semantics of that
attribute value, just as it does for attribute names. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>If an attribute is typed as a QName in the schema, the
new XPath 2.0 functions can be used to manipulate it as required at
application level. This is considered sufficient to meet the requirement.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 8</i></b></p><p>Could Support XHTML Output Method</p><p>Complementing the existing output methods for html, xml, and text, an
xhtml output method could be provided to simplify transformations which
target XHTML output.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>An XHTML output method is now provided: see <a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 9</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Allow Matching on Default Namespace Without Explicit Prefix</p><p>Many users stumble trying to match an element with a default namespace.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A new <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute
is provided for this purpose: see <a href="#unprefixed-qnames"><i>5.2 Unprefixed QNames in Expressions and Patterns</i></a>
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 10</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Add Date Formatting Functions</p><p>One of the more frequent requests from XSLT 1.0 users is the ability
to format date information with similar control to XSLT's
format-number. XML Schema introduces several kinds of date
and time datatypes which will further increase the demand
for date formatting during transformations. Functionality
similar to that provided by java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
A date analog of XSLT's named xsl:decimal-format may
be required to handle locale-specific date formatting issues. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A set of date formatting functions has been specified:
see <a href="#format-date"><i>16.5 Formatting Dates and Times</i></a>
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 11</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Simplify Accessing Id's and Key's in Other Documents</p><p>Currently it is cumbersome to lookup nodes by id() or key() in documents
other than the source document. Users <span class="verb">must</span> first use an xsl:for-each
instruction, selecting the desired document() to make it the current
node, then relative XPath expressions within the scope of the
xsl:for-each can refer to id() or key() as desired.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The requirement is met by the generalization of path syntax in XPath 2.0. It is
now possible to use a path expression such as <code>document('a.xml')/id('A001')</code>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 12</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Provide Function to Absolutize Relative URIs</p><p>There <span class="verb">should</span> be a way in XSLT 2.0 to create an absolute URI. The
functionality <span class="verb">should</span> allow passing a node-set and return a <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a>
representing the absolute URI resolved with respect to the base URI of
the current node. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A function <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-resolve-uri"><code>resolve-uri</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> is now defined in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 13</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Include Unparsed Text from an External Resource</p><p>Frequently stylesheets <span class="verb">must</span> import text from external resources.
Today users have to resort to
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a> to accomplish
this because XSLT 1.0 only provides the document() function which, while useful,
can only read external resources that are well-formed XML documents.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A function <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> has been added: see
<a href="#unparsed-text"><i>16.2 Reading Text Files</i></a>
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 14</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Allow Authoring Extension Functions in XSLT</p><p>As part of the XSLT 1.1 work done on
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>, a proposal to
author XSLT extension functions in XSLT itself was deferred for reconsideration
in XSLT 2.0. This would allow the functions in an extension namespace to be
implemented in "pure" XSLT, without resulting to external programming languages.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A solution to this requirement, the <a href="#element-function"><code>xsl:function</code></a> element,
is included in this specification. See <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 15</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Output Character Entity References Instead of Numeric Character Entities</p><p>Users have frequently requested the ability to have the output of their transformation
use (named) character references instead of the numeric character entity.
The ability to control this preference as the level of the whole document
is sufficient. For example, rather than seeing &amp;#160; in the output,
the user could request to see the equivalent &amp;nbsp; instead.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The serialization specification
gives the implementation discretion on how special characters are output.
A user who wishes to force the use of named character references can
achieve this using the new <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> declaration.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 16</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Construct Entity Reference by Name</p><p>Analogous to the ability to create elements and attributes, users
have expressed a desire to construct named entity references. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>No solution has been provided to this requirement;
it is difficult, because entity references are not defined in the data model.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 17</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Support for Unicode String Normalization</p><p>For reliable string comparison of Unicode strings, users need the ability to
apply Unicode normalization before comparing the strings.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This requirement has been addressed by the provision of the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-normalize-unicode"><code>normalize-unicode</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function described in
<a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>. In addition, a serialization parameter
<code>normalization-form</code> has been added.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 18</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> Standardize Extension Element Language Bindings</p><p>XSLT 1.1 undertook the standardization of language bindings for XSLT
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">extension functions</a>.
For XSLT 2.0, analogous bindings <span class="verb">should</span> be provided
for extension elements [now
renamed <a title="extension instruction" href="#dt-extension-instruction">extension instructions</a>].</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The XSL Working Group has decided not to pursue this requirement,
and the attempt to standardize language bindings for extension functions that
appeared in the XSLT 1.1 Working Draft has now been withdrawn. The Working Group
decided that language bindings would be better published separately from the
core XSLT specification.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 19</i></b></p><p>Could Improve Efficiency of Transformations on Large Documents</p><p>Many useful transformations take place on large documents consisting of thousands of repeating "sub-documents". Today
transformations over these documents are impractical due to the need to have the entire source tree in memory.
Enabling "progressive" transformations, where the processor is able to produce
progressively more output as more input is received, is tantamount to avoiding the need for XSLT processors to have random access to the entire
source document. This might be accomplished by: </p><p>Identifying a core subset of XPath that does not require random access to the source tree, or</p><p>Consider a "transform all subtrees" mode where the stylesheet
says, "Apply the transformation implied by this stylesheet to each node that
matches XXX, considered as the root of a separate tree, and copy all the
results of these mini-transformations as separate subtrees on to the final
result tree."</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The Working Group observes that implementation techniques for XSLT processing
have advanced considerably since this requirement was written, and that further research developing
new approaches continues both in industry and academia. In the light of
these developments, the Working Group has decided that it would be inappropriate at this stage to identify
language features or subsets designed specifically to enable progressive transformations.
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 20</i></b></p><p>Could Support Reverse IDREF attributes</p><p>Given a particular value of an ID, produce a list of all elements that have an IDREF or IDREFS attribute which refers to this ID.</p><p>This functionality can be accomplished using the current &lt;xsl:key&gt; and key() mechanism.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-idref"><code>idref</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function defined in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a> has been
introduced in response to this requirement.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 21</i></b></p><p>Could Support Case-Insensitive Comparisons</p><p> XSLT 2.0 could expand its comparison functionality to include support for case-insensitive string comparison.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This is an XPath 2.0 requirement. XPath 2.0 includes
functions to convert strings to uppercase or lowercase, it also includes functions to compare
strings using a named collating sequence, which provides the option of using a collating
sequence that treats uppercase and lowercase as equal.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 22</i></b></p><p>Could Support Lexigraphic String Comparisons</p><p>We don't let users compare strings like $x &gt; 'a'. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This requirement has been addressed in XPath 2.0.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 23</i></b></p><p>Could Allow Comparing Nodes Based on Document Order</p><p>Support the ability to test whether one node comes before another in document order.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This requirement has been addressed in XPath 2.0, using the operators
<code>&lt;&lt;</code> and <code>&gt;&gt;</code>.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 24</i></b></p><p>Could Improve Support for Unparsed Entities</p><p>In XSLT 1.0 there is an asymmetry in support for unparsed entities.
They can be handled on input but not on output. In particular, there
is no way to do an identity transformation that preserves them.
At a minimum we need the ability to retrieve the Public ID of an unparsed entity.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A function to retrieve the public identifier of an unparsed
entity has been added. However, no facilities have been provided to include unparsed entities
in a result document.
</p><p><b><i>Requirement 25</i></b></p><p>Could Allow Processing a Node with the "Next Best Matching" Template</p><p>In the construction of large stylesheets for complex documents, it is often
necessary to construct templates that implement special behavior for a particular
instance of an element, and then apply the normal styling for that element.
Currently this is not possible because <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a> specifies
that for any given node only a single template will be selected and instantiated.</p><p>Currently the processor determines a list of matching templates and then
discards all but the one with the highest priority. In order to support this
requirement, the processor would retain the list of matching templates sorted
in priority order. A new instruction, for example <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a>,
in a template would simply trigger the next template in the list of matching
templates. This "next best match" recursion naturally bottoms out at the
builtin template which can be seen as the lowest priority matching template
for every match pattern.
</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>An <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> instruction has been added.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 26</i></b></p><p>Could Make Coercions Symmetric By Allowing Scalar to Nodeset Conversion</p><p>Presently, no datatype can be coerced or cast to a node-set. By
allowing a <a title="string value" href="#dt-string-value">string value</a> to convert to a node-set, some user "gotchas"
could be avoided. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>The availability of sequences of strings or numbers probably
meets most of the use-cases envisaged by this requirement.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 27</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Simplify Constructing and Copying Typed Content</p><p>It <span class="verb">must</span> be possible to construct XML Schema-typed elements and
attributes. In addition, when copying an element or an attribute to
the result, it <span class="verb">should</span> be possible to preserve the type during the process.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>Facilities to validate constructed and copied
element and attribute nodes are defined in this specification; these elements and attributes will
carry a type annotation indicating their XML Schema type. In addition, it is possible to specify when
copying nodes whether type annotations should be preserved or removed.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 28</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Support Sorting Nodes Based on XML Schema Type</p><p>XSLT 1.0 supports sorting based on string-valued and number-valued expressions.
XML Schema: Datatypes introduces new scalar types (for example, date)
with well-known sort orders. It <span class="verb">must</span> be possible to sort based on these
extended set of scalar data types. Since XML Schema: Datatypes does not
define an ordering for complex types, this sorting support <span class="verb">should</span> only
be considered for simple types.</p><p>
<span class="verb">should</span> be consistent with whatever we define for the matrix of conversion and comparisons.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>Sorting based on any schema-defined primitive data type with
a total ordering is included
in this specification. </p><p><b><i>Requirement 29</i></b></p><p>Could Support Scientific Notation in Number Formatting</p><p>Several users have requested the ability to have the existing
format-number() function extended to format numbers using
Scientific Notation.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>Simple scientific formatting is now
available through support for the schema-defined <code>xs:float</code> and <code>xs:double</code> data types;
casting a large or small value of these types to a string produces a representation of the value in
scientific notation. The Working Group believes that this will meet the requirement in most cases, and
has therefore decided not to enhance the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> further to introduce scientific notation.
Users with more specialized requirements can write their own functions.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 30</i></b></p><p>Could Provide Ability to Detect Whether "Rich" Schema Information
is Available</p><p>A stylesheet that requires XML Schema type-related functionality
could be able to test whether a "rich" Post-Schema-Validated
Infoset is available from the XML Schema processor, so that
the stylesheet can provide fallback behavior or choose to exit
with <code>xsl:message abort="yes"</code>.</p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>This requirement is satisified through the <code>instance of</code> operator in XPath 2.0,
which allows expressions to determine the type of element and
attribute nodes, using information from the schema. The details of
how these expressions behave when there is no schema are defined in the XPath
specifications.</p><p><b><i>Requirement 31</i></b></p><p>
<span class="verb">must</span> Simplify Grouping</p><p>Grouping is complicated in XSLT 1.0. It <span class="verb">must</span> be possible for users to group
nodes in a document based on common string-values, common names, or
common values for any other expression</p><p>In addition XSLT <span class="verb">must</span> allow grouping based on sequential position, for example
selecting groups of adjacent &lt;P&gt; elements. Ideally it <span class="verb">should</span> also make it
easier to do fixed-size grouping as well, for example groups of three adjacent nodes, for
laying out data in multiple columns.
For each group of nodes identified, it <span class="verb">must</span> be possible to instantiate a template for the group. Grouping <span class="verb">must</span> be "nestable" to multiple levels so that groups of distinct nodes can be identified, then from among the distinct groups selected,
further sub-grouping of distinct node in the current group can be done. </p><p><i>Response</i></p><p>A new <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a> instruction is provided: see
<a href="#grouping"><i>14 Grouping</i></a>. In addition, many of the new functions and operators provided
in XPath 2.0 make these algorithms easier to write.</p></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="changes" id="changes"/>J Changes from XSLT 1.0 (Non-Normative)</h2><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="incompatibilities" id="incompatibilities"/>J.1 Incompatible Changes</h3><p>This section lists all known cases where a stylesheet that was valid (produced no errors)
under XSLT 1.0, and whose behavior was fully specified by XSLT 1.0,
will produce different results under XSLT 2.0.</p><p>Most of the discussion is concerned with compatibility
in the absence of a schema: that is, it is assumed that the source document
being transformed has no schema when processed using XSLT 1.0, and that no
schema is added when moving to XSLT 2.0. Some additional factors that come into
play when a schema is added are noted at the end of the section.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="incompatibility-stripping" id="incompatibility-stripping"/>J.1.1 Tree construction: whitespace stripping</h4><p>Both in XSLT 1.0 and in XSLT 2.0, the XSLT specification places no constraints on the
way in which source trees are constructed. For XSLT 2.0, however, the <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>
specification describes explicit processes for constructing a tree
from an Infoset or a PSVI, while also permitting other processes to be used.
The process described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a> has the effect of stripping
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a>
from elements declared to have element-only content. Although the
XSLT 1.0 specification did not preclude such behavior, it differs from the
way that most existing XSLT 1.0 implementations work. It is <span class="verb">recommended</span> that
an XSLT 2.0 implementation wishing to provide maximum interoperability and
backwards compatibility should offer the user the option either to construct
source trees using the processes described in <a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, or alternatively
to retain or remove whitespace according to the common practice of previous
XSLT 1.0 implementations.</p><p>To write transformations that give the same result regardless of the
whitespace stripping applied during tree construction, stylesheet authors
can:</p><ul><li><p>use the <a href="#element-strip-space"><code>xsl:strip-space</code></a> declaration to remove
<a title="whitespace text node" href="#dt-whitespace-text-node">whitespace text nodes</a> from
elements having element-only content (this has no effect if the whitespace
has already been stripped)</p></li><li><p>use instructions such as <code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="*"/&gt;</code> that cause only
the element children of the context node to be processed, and not its text
nodes.</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="incompatibility-serialization" id="incompatibility-serialization"/>J.1.2 Changes in Serialization Behavior</h4><p>The specification of the output of <a title="serialization" href="#dt-serialization">serialization</a>
is more prescriptive than
in XSLT 1.0. For example, the <code>html</code> output method is
<span class="verb">required</span> to detect invalid HTML characters. Also, certain
combinations of serialization parameters are now defined to be errors.
Furthermore, XSLT 1.0 implementations were allowed to add
additional <a href="#element-output"><code>xsl:output</code></a> attributes that modified the behavior of the
serializer. Some such extensions might be non-conformant
under the stricter rules of XSLT 2.0. For example, some XSLT 1.0 processors
provided an extension attribute to switch off the creation of <code>meta</code> elements
by the <code>html</code> output method (a facility that is now provided as standard). A
conformant XSLT 2.0 processor is not allowed to provide such extensions.</p><p>Where necessary, implementations <span class="verb">may</span> provide additional serialization methods
designed to mimic more closely the behavior of specific XSLT 1.0 serializers.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="backwards-compatibility-behavior" id="backwards-compatibility-behavior"/>J.1.3 Backwards Compatibility Behavior</h4><p>Some XSLT constructs behave differently under XSLT 2.0 depending on whether
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a> is enabled.
In these cases, the behavior may be made compatible with XSLT 1.0 by ensuring that
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a> is enabled
(which is done using the <code>[xsl:]version</code> attribute).</p><p>These constructs are as follows:</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>If the <a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a> instruction has no <code>separator</code> attribute, and the
value of the <code>select</code> expression is a sequence of more than one item, then under XSLT 2.0
all items in the sequence will be output, space separated, while in XSLT 1.0, all items after the first
will be discarded.</p></li><li><p>If the <a title="effective value" href="#dt-effective-value">effective value</a> of an
<a title="attribute value template" href="#dt-attribute-value-template">attribute value template</a>
is a sequence of more than one item, then under XSLT 2.0
all items in the sequence will be output, space separated, while in XSLT 1.0, all items after the first
will be discarded.</p></li><li><p>If the expression in the <code>value</code> attribute of the
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction
returns a sequence of more than one item, then under XSLT 2.0
all items in the sequence will be output, as defined by the <code>format</code> attribute,
but under XSLT 1.0, all items after the first will be discarded. If the sequence is empty, then
under XSLT 2.0 nothing will be output (other than a prefix and suffix if requested),
but under XSLT 1.0, the output is "NaN". If the first item
in the sequence cannot be converted to a number, then XSLT 2.0 signals a non-recoverable error,
while XSLT 1.0 outputs "NaN".</p><p>If the expression in the <code>value</code> attribute of
<a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> returns an empty sequence or a sequence including non-numeric values,
an XSLT 2.0 processor may signal a recoverable error; but with backwards compatibility enabled, it
outputs <code>NaN</code>.</p></li><li><p>If the <a title="atomize" href="#dt-atomization">atomized</a> value of the
<code>select</code> attribute of the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element
is a sequence of more than one item, then under XSLT 2.0
an error will be signaled,
while in XSLT 1.0, all items after the first will be discarded.</p></li><li><p>If an <a href="#element-call-template"><code>xsl:call-template</code></a> instruction
supplies a parameter that does not correspond to any <a title="template parameter" href="#dt-template-parameter">template
parameter</a> in the template being called, then under XSLT 2.0 a
<a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
is signaled, but under XSLT 1.0 the extra parameter is ignored.</p></li><li><p>It is normally a <a title="static error" href="#dt-static-error">static error</a>
if an XPath expression contains a call to an unknown function. But when backwards compatible behavior
is enabled, this is a <a title="non-recoverable dynamic error" href="#dt-nonrec-dynamic-error">non-recoverable dynamic error</a>,
which occurs only if the function call is actually evaluated.</p></li><li><p>An XSLT 1.0 processor compared the value of the expression in the
<code>use</code> attribute of <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a> to the value supplied in the second
argument of the <a href="#function-key"><code>key</code></a> function by converting both to strings. An XSLT 2.0 processor
normally compares the values as supplied. The XSLT 1.0 behavior is retained if any of the <a href="#element-key"><code>xsl:key</code></a>
elements making up the <a title="key" href="#dt-key">key</a> definition enables
backwards-compatible behavior.</p></li><li><p>If no output method is explicitly requested, and the
first element node output appears to be an XHTML document element, then under XSLT 2.0 the
output method defaults to XHTML; with backwards compatibility enabled, the XML output method
will be used.</p></li></ol><p>Backwards compatible behavior also affects the results of certain XPath expressions, as defined in
<a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>.</p></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="incompatibility-without-schema" id="incompatibility-without-schema"/>J.1.4 Incompatibility in the Absence of a Schema</h4><p>If the source documents supplied as input to a transformation contain
no type information generated from a schema then the known areas of incompatibility are as follows.
These apply whether or not
<a title="backwards compatible behavior" href="#dt-backwards-compatible-behavior">backwards compatible behavior</a>
is enabled.</p><ol class="enumar"><li><p>A stylesheet that specifies a version number other than 1.0 was defined
in XSLT 1.0 to execute in forwards-compatible mode; if such a stylesheet uses features
that are not defined in XSLT 2.0 then errors may be signaled by an XSLT 2.0 processor
that would not be signaled by an XSLT 1.0 processor.</p></li><li><p>At XSLT 1.0 the <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function, when called with a first
argument of <code>"xsl:version"</code>, returned 1.0 as a number. At XSLT 2.0 it returns "2.0"
as a string. The <span class="verb">recommended</span> way of testing this property is, for example,
<code>&lt;xsl:if test="number(system-property('xsl:version')) &amp;lt; 2.0"&gt;</code>, which
will work with either an XSLT 1.0 or an XSLT 2.0 processor.</p></li><li><p>At XSLT 2.0 it is an error to specify the <code>mode</code>
or <code>priority</code> attribute on an <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element having no
<code>match</code> attribute. At XSLT 1.0 the attributes were silently ignored in this
situation.</p></li><li><p>When an <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
or <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> instruction causes a built-in template rule to be
invoked, then any parameters that are supplied are automatically passed on
to any further template rules. This did not happen in XSLT 1.0.</p></li><li><p>In XSLT 1.0 it was a recoverable error to create any node other than
a text node while constructing the value of an attribute, comment, or processing-instruction; the
recovery action was to ignore the offending node and its content. In XSLT 2.0 this is no longer
an error, and the specified action is to atomize the node. An XSLT 2.0 processor will therefore
not produce the same results as an XSLT 1.0 processor that took the error recovery action.</p></li><li><p>XSLT 1.0 defined a number of recoverable error conditions which in XSLT 2.0 have
become non-recoverable errors. Under XSLT 1.0, a stylesheet that triggered such errors would fail
under some XSLT processors and succeed (or at any rate, continue to completion) under others.
Under XSLT 2.0 such a stylesheet will fail under all processors. Notable examples of such errors
are constructing an element or attribute with an invalid name, generating attributes as children of
a document node, and generating an attribute of an element after generating one or more children
for the element. This change has been made in the interests of interoperability.
In classifying such errors as non-recoverable, the Working Group used the criterion
that no stylesheet author would be likely to write code that deliberately triggered the error and
relied on the recovery action.</p></li><li><p>In XSLT 1.0, the semantics of tree construction were described as being
top-down, in XSLT 2.0 they are described bottom up. In nearly all cases the end result is the same. One
difference arises in the case of a tree that is constructed to contain an attribute node within a document
node within an element node, using an instruction such as the following:</p><div class="example">
<div class="exampleHeader"><a name="d5e31484" id="d5e31484"/>Example: Attribute within Document within Element</div><div class="exampleInner"><pre>&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
&lt;e&gt;
&lt;xsl:copy&gt;
&lt;xsl:attribute name="a"&gt;5&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
&lt;/xsl:copy&gt;
&lt;/e&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre></div></div><p>In XSLT 1.0, the <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a> did nothing, and the attribute <code>a</code> was then
attached to the element <code>e</code>. In XSLT 2.0, an error occurs when attaching the attribute <code>a</code>
to the document node constructed by <a href="#element-copy"><code>xsl:copy</code></a>, because this happens before the resulting
document node is copied to the content of the constructed element.</p></li><li><p>In XSLT 1.0 it was not an error for the <code>namespace</code>
attribute of <a href="#element-element"><code>xsl:element</code></a> or <a href="#element-attribute"><code>xsl:attribute</code></a> to evaluate to an invalid URI.
Since many XML parsers accept any string as a namespace name, this rarely caused problems. The
<a href="#xpath-datamodel">[Data Model]</a>, however, requires the name of a node to be an <code>xs:QName</code>, and
the namespace part of an <code>xs:QName</code> is always an <code>xs:anyURI</code>. It is therefore
now defined to be an error to create an element or attribute node in a namespace whose name is not
a valid instance of <code>xs:anyURI</code>. In practice, however,
implementations have some flexibility in how rigorously they validate namespace URIs.</p></li><li><p>It is now a static error for the stylesheet to contain two conflicting
<a href="#element-namespace-alias"><code>xsl:namespace-alias</code></a> declarations with the same import precedence.</p></li><li><p>It is now a static error for an <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a> instruction to
contain both a <code>value</code> attribute and a <code>level</code>, <code>from</code>,
or <code>count</code> attribute. In XSLT 1.0 the <code>value</code> attribute took
precedence and the other attributes were silently ignored.</p></li><li><p>When the <code>data-type</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
has the value <code>number</code>, an XSLT 1.0 processor would evaluate the sort key as a string,
and convert the result to a number. An XSLT 2.0 processor evaluates the sort key as a number
directly. This only affects the outcome in cases where in XSLT 1.0,
conversion of a number to a string and then
back to a number does not produce the original number, as is the case for example with the number
positive infinity.</p></li><li><p>When the <code>data-type</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
is omitted, an XSLT 1.0 processor would convert the sort key values to strings, and sort them as strings.
An XSLT 2.0 processor will sort them according to their actual dynamic type. This means, for example,
that if the sort key component specifies <code>&lt;xsl:sort select="string-length(.)"/&gt;</code>, an XSLT 2.0 processor will
do a numeric sort where an XSLT 1.0 processor would have done an alphabetic sort.</p></li><li><p>When the <code>data-type</code> attribute of <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>
is omitted or has the value "text", an XSLT 1.0 processor treats a sort key whose value is an empty
node-set as being equal to a sort key whose value is a zero-length string. XSLT 2.0 sorts the empty
sequence before the zero-length string. This means that if there are two sort keys, say
<code>&lt;xsl:sort select="@a"/&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;xsl:sort select="@b"/&gt;</code>, then
an XSLT 1.0 processor will sort the element <code>&lt;x b="2"/&gt;</code> after
<code>&lt;x a="" b="1"/&gt;</code>, while an XSLT 2.0 processor will produce the opposite
ordering.</p></li><li><p>The specification of the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a>
function has been rewritten to remove the normative dependency on the Java JDK 1.1
specification. The JDK 1.1 specification left aspects of the behavior undefined; it is
therefore likely that some cases will give different results.</p><p>The ability to include
literal text in the format picture enclosed in single quotes has been removed; any
stylesheet that uses this feature will need to be modified, for example to display the
literal text using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-concat"><code>concat</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function instead.</p><p>One specific difference between the XSLT 2.0 specification and a JDK-based implementation
is in the handling of the negative sub-picture. JDK releases subsequent to JDK 1.1 have added
the provision: <em>If there is an explicit negative subpattern [sub-picture], it serves only to specify
the negative prefix and suffix; the number of digits, minimal digits, and other characteristics
are all the same as the positive pattern [sub-picture].</em> This statement was not present in the JDK 1.1
specification, and therefore it is not necessarily how every XSLT 1.0 implementation will behave,
but it does describe the behavior of some XSLT 1.0 implementations that use the JDK directly.
This behavior is not correct in XSLT 2.0: the negative sub-picture <span class="verb">must</span> be used as written when
the number is negative.</p></li><li><p>The recovery action has changed for the error condition where the processor
cannot handle the fragment identifier in a URI passed as an argument to the <a href="#function-document"><code>document</code></a> function.
XSLT 1.0 specified that the entire URI reference should be ignored. XSLT 2.0 specifies that the fragment identifier
should be ignored.</p></li><li><p>XSLT 1.0 allowed the URI returned by the <a href="#function-unparsed-entity-uri"><code>unparsed-entity-uri</code></a>
function to be derived from some combination of the system identifier and the public identifier
in the source XML. XSLT 2.0 returns the system identifier as defined in the Infoset, resolved using
the base URI of the source document. A new function is provided to return the public identifier.</p></li><li><p>The default priority of the pattern <code>match="/"</code> has
changed from +0.5 to -0.5. The effect of this is that if there are
any template rules that specify <code>match="/"</code> with an explicit
user-specified priority between -0.5 and +0.5, these will now be chosen
in preference to a template rule that specifies <code>match="/"</code>
with no explicit priority; previously such rules would never have been
invoked.</p></li><li><p>In XSLT 1.0 it was possible to create a processing instruction
in the result tree whose string value contained a leading space. However, such leading spaces
would be lost after serialization and parsing. In XSLT 2.0, any leading spaces in the string
value of the processing instruction are removed at the time the node is created.</p></li><li><p>At XSLT 1.0 there were no restrictions on the namespaces that could be
used for the names of user-defined stylesheet objects such as keys, variables, and named templates.
In XSLT 2.0, certain namespaces (for example the XSLT namespace and the XML Schema namespace)
are reserved.</p></li><li><p>An erratum to XSLT 1.0 specified what has become known as "sticky
disable-output-escaping": specifically, that it should be possible to use <code>disable-output-escaping</code>
when writing a node to a temporary tree, and that this information would be retained for use
when the same node was later copied to a final result tree and serialized. XSLT 2.0 no longer
specifies this behavior. The
use cases for this facility have been satisfied by a completely different mechanism, the
concept of character maps (see <a href="#character-maps"><i>20.1 Character Maps</i></a>).</p></li></ol></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="compatibility-with-schema" id="compatibility-with-schema"/>J.1.5 Compatibility in the Presence of a Schema</h4><p>An XSLT 1.0 processor ignored all information about data types that might be obtained from
a schema associated with a source document.
An XSLT 2.0 processor will take account of
such information, unless the <code>input-type-annotations</code> attribute
is set to <code>strip</code>. This may lead to a number of differences in behavior.
This section attempts
only to give some examples of the kind of differences that might be expected when schema
information is made available:</p><ul><li><p>Operations such as sorting will be sensitive to the data type of the items
being sorted. For example, if the data type of a sort key component is defined in the schema
as a date, then in the absence of a <code>data-type</code> attribute on the
<a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element, the sequence will be sorted in date order. With XSLT 1.0,
the dates would be compared and sorted as strings.</p></li><li><p>Certain operations that are permitted on untyped data
are not permitted on typed data, if the type of the data is inappropriate
for the operation. For example, the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-substring"><code>substring</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function
expects its first argument to be a string. It is acceptable to supply an untyped
value, which will be automatically converted to a string, but it is not
acceptable to supply a value which has been annotated (as a result of schema
processing) as an integer or a date.</p></li><li><p>When an attribute value such as <code>colors="red green blue"</code>
is processed without a schema, the value is considered to be a single string. When
schema validation is applied, assuming the type is a list type like <code>xs:NMTOKENS</code>,
the value will be treated as a sequence of three strings. This affects the results
of many operations, for example comparison of the value with another string.
With this attribute value, the expression
<code>contains(@colors, "green")</code> returns true in XPath 1.0 and also in XPath 2.0
if <code>input-type-annotations</code> is set to <code>strip</code>.
In XPath 2.0, with a schema-aware processor and with
<code>input-type-annotations</code> set to <code>preserve</code>, the same expression
returns false with backwards-compatibility enabled, and raises an error with backwards
compatibility disabled.</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="xpath-compatibility" id="xpath-compatibility"/>J.1.6 XPath 2.0 Backwards Compatibility</h4><p>Information about incompatibilities between XPath 2.0 and XPath 1.0
is included in <a href="#xpath20">[XPath 2.0]</a>
</p><p>Incompatibilities in the specification of individual functions in the
<a title="core function" href="#dt-core-function">core function</a> library are listed in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>
</p></div></div><div class="div2">
<h3><a name="changes-since-1.0" id="changes-since-1.0"/>J.2 New Functionality</h3><p>This section summarizes the new functionality offered in XSLT 2.0, compared
with XSLT 1.0. These are
arranged in three groups. Firstly, the changes that pervade the entire text. Secondly,
the major new features introduced. And thirdly, a catalog of minor technical changes.</p><p>In addition to these changes,
reported <a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-xslt-19991116-errata/">errors</a>
in XSLT 1.0 have been fixed.</p><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="pervasive-changes" id="pervasive-changes"/>J.2.1 Pervasive changes</h4><ul><li><p>There has been significant re-arrangement of the text.
More terminology definitions have been hyperlinked, and a glossary
(see <a href="#glossary"><i>C Glossary</i></a>) has been added. Additional appendices summarize the error conditions
and implementation-defined features of the specification.</p></li><li><p>The specifications of many features (for example keys, <a href="#element-number"><code>xsl:number</code></a>,
the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function, the <a href="#element-import"><code>xsl:import</code></a>
mechanism, and the description of attribute sets) have been rewritten to make them clearer and more precise.</p></li><li><p>Many changes have been made to support the XDM data model,
notably the support for sequences as a replacement for the node-sets of XPath 1.0. This
has affected the specification of elements such as <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a>,
<a href="#element-value-of"><code>xsl:value-of</code></a>, and <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a>, and has led to the introduction
of new instructions such as <a href="#element-sequence"><code>xsl:sequence</code></a>.</p></li><li><p>The processing model is described differently: instead of instructions "writing
to the result tree", they now return sequences of values. This change is largely one
of terminology, but it also means that it is now possible for XSLT stylesheets to manipulate
arbitrary sequences, including sequences containing parentless element or attribute nodes.</p></li><li><p>The description of the evaluation context has been changed. The concepts of
current node and current node list have been replaced by the XPath concepts of context item,
context position, and context size.</p></li><li><p>With the introduction of support for XML Schema within XPath 2.0, XSLT now
supports stronger data typing, while retaining backwards compatibility.
In particular, the types of variables and parameters can now be specified explicitly, and
schema validation can be invoked for result trees and for elements and attributes in temporary trees.</p></li><li><p>The description of error handling has been improved (see <a href="#errors"><i>2.9 Error Handling</i></a>).
This formalizes the difference between static and dynamic errors, and tightens the
rules that define which errors must be signaled under which conditions.</p></li><li><p>The terms <a title="implementation-defined" href="#dt-implementation-defined">implementation-defined</a> and
<a title="implementation-dependent" href="#dt-implementation-dependent">implementation-dependent</a> are now defined and used
consistently, and a checklist of implementation-defined features is provided
(see <a href="#implementation-defined-features"><i>F Checklist of Implementation-Defined Features</i></a>).</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="major-features" id="major-features"/>J.2.2 Major Features</h4><ul><li><p>XSLT 2.0 is designed to work with XPath 2.0 rather than XPath 1.0. This brings an enhanced
data model with a type system based on sequences of nodes or atomic values, support for all the
built-in types defined in XML Schema, and a wide range of new functions and operators.</p></li><li><p>The result tree fragment data-type is
eliminated. <a title="variable-binding element" href="#dt-variable-binding-element">A variable-binding element</a> with content
(and no <code>as</code> attribute)
now constructs a <a title="temporary tree" href="#dt-temporary-tree">temporary tree</a>, and the value of the variable
is the root node of this tree (see <a href="#variable-values"><i>9.3 Values of Variables and Parameters</i></a>). With an <code>as</code> attribute,
a variable-binding element may be used to construct an arbitrary sequence. These features eliminate the need
for the <code>xx:node-set</code> extension function provided by many XSLT 1.0 implementations.</p></li><li><p>Facilities are introduced for grouping of nodes (the <a href="#element-for-each-group"><code>xsl:for-each-group</code></a>
instruction, and the <code>current-group()</code> and <code>current-grouping-key()</code> functions).
See <a href="#grouping"><i>14 Grouping</i></a>
</p></li><li><p>It is now possible to create user-defined functions within
the stylesheet, that can be called from XPath expressions. See <a href="#stylesheet-functions"><i>10.3 Stylesheet Functions</i></a>.
</p></li><li><p>A transformation is allowed to produce multiple result trees.
See <a href="#creating-result-trees"><i>19.1 Creating Final Result Trees</i></a>.
</p></li><li><p>A new instruction <a href="#element-analyze-string"><code>xsl:analyze-string</code></a> is provided to process text
by matching it against a regular expression.</p></li><li><p>It is possible to declare the types of variables and parameters, and the
result types of templates and functions. The types
may either be built-in types, or user-defined types imported from a schema using a new
<a href="#element-import-schema"><code>xsl:import-schema</code></a> declaration.</p></li><li><p>A stylesheet is able to attach type annotations to elements and attributes in a result
tree, and also in temporary trees, and to make use of any type annotations that exist in a source tree.
Result trees and temporary trees can be validated against a schema.</p></li><li><p>A transformation may now be invoked by calling a named
template. This creates the
potential for a transformation to process large collections of input documents. The
input to such a transformation may be obtained using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-collection"><code>collection</code></a><sup><small>FO</small></sup> function defined
in <a href="#xpath-functions">[Functions and Operators]</a>, or it may be supplied as a <a title="stylesheet parameter" href="#dt-stylesheet-parameter">stylesheet parameter</a>.</p></li><li><p>Comparisons between values used for grouping, for sorting, and for keys can be performed
using the rules for any supported data type, including the ability to select named collations for
performing string comparison. These complement the new facilities in XPath 2.0, which are also
invoked automatically when matching template rules.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="#element-for-each"><code>xsl:for-each</code></a> instruction is able to process any sequence, not only
a sequence of nodes.</p></li><li><p>An XHTML output method has been added. The details are described in
<a href="#xslt-xquery-serialization">[XSLT and XQuery Serialization]</a>.
</p></li><li><p>A <code>collation</code> attribute has been added to
the <a href="#element-sort"><code>xsl:sort</code></a> element to allow sorting using a user-defined collation.</p></li><li><p>A new <a href="#element-next-match"><code>xsl:next-match</code></a> is provided to allow multiple
template rules to be applied to the same source node.</p></li><li><p>A new <a href="#element-character-map"><code>xsl:character-map</code></a> declaration is available
to control the serialization of individual characters. This is intended as
a replacement for some use-cases where <code>disable-output-escaping</code>
was previously necessary.</p></li><li><p>Functions have been added for formatting dates and times.
See <a href="#format-date"><i>16.5 Formatting Dates and Times</i></a>
</p></li><li><p>The new facility of <a title="tunnel parameter" href="#dt-tunnel-parameter">tunnel parameters</a>
allows parameters to be set that affect an entire phase of the transformation, without
requiring them to be passed explicitly in every template call.</p></li><li><p>Many instructions that previously constructed a value using child
instructions can now alternatively construct the value using a <code>select</code>
attribute; and conversely, instructions that previously required a <code>select</code>
attribute can now use child instructions.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> declaration can now declare
a template rule that applies to several different modes; and the <a href="#element-apply-templates"><code>xsl:apply-templates</code></a>
instruction can cause processing to continue in the current mode.</p></li></ul></div><div class="div3">
<h4><a name="minor-changes" id="minor-changes"/>J.2.3 Minor Changes</h4><ul><li><p>Instead of allowing the output method complete freedom to
add namespace nodes, a process of namespace fixup is applied to the
result tree before it is output; this same namespace fixup process is
also applied to documents constructed using variable-binding elements with
content (see <a href="#namespace-fixup"><i>5.7.3 Namespace Fixup</i></a>).</p></li><li><p>Support for XML Base has been added.</p></li><li><p>An <a href="#element-apply-imports"><code>xsl:apply-imports</code></a> element is allowed to have
parameters (see <a href="#apply-imports"><i>6.7 Overriding Template Rules</i></a> and <a href="#with-param"><i>10.1.1 Passing Parameters to Templates</i></a>).</p></li><li><p>
<a title="extension function" href="#dt-extension-function">Extension functions</a> are
allowed to return external objects, which do not have any of the builtin
XPath types.</p></li><li><p>The specification for patterns (<a href="#patterns"><i>5.5 Patterns</i></a>) has been revised to align it with the
new XPath grammar. The formal semantics of patterns has been simplified: this became possible because
of the extra compositionality now available in the expression grammar. The syntax and semantics
of patterns remains essentially unchanged, except that XPath 2.0 expressions can be used within
predicates.</p></li><li><p>A backwards-compatible processing mode is introduced. See <a href="#backwards"><i>3.8 Backwards-Compatible Processing</i></a>
</p></li><li><p>The <a href="#function-system-property"><code>system-property</code></a> function now always
returns a string. Several new system properties have been defined. See <a href="#system-property"><i>16.6.5 system-property</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>With <code>&lt;xsl:message terminate="yes"&gt;</code>, the processor now
<em>
<span class="verb">must</span>
</em> terminate processing. Previously the word <em>
<span class="verb">should</span>
</em> was
used. See <a href="#message"><i>17 Messages</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>A number of new serialization parameters have been introduced.</p></li><li><p>A new instruction <a href="#element-namespace"><code>xsl:namespace</code></a> is available, for creating
namespace nodes: see <a href="#creating-namespace-nodes"><i>11.7 Creating Namespace Nodes</i></a>.</p></li><li><p>A new instruction <a href="#element-perform-sort"><code>xsl:perform-sort</code></a> is available, for
returning a sorted sequence.</p></li><li><p>A new <code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> attribute is available to define
the default namespace for unqualified names in an XPath expression or XSLT pattern.</p></li><li><p>The attributes <code>[xsl:]version</code>, <code>[xsl:]exclude-result-prefixes</code>,
and <code>[xsl:]extension-element-prefixes</code>, as well as the new
<code>[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace</code> and <code>[xsl:]default-collation</code>,
can be used on any <a title="XSLT element" href="#dt-xslt-element">XSLT element</a>, not only on
<a href="#element-stylesheet"><code>xsl:stylesheet</code></a> and on literal result elements as before. In particular, they
can now be used on the <a href="#element-template"><code>xsl:template</code></a> element.</p></li><li><p>A new <a href="#function-unparsed-text"><code>unparsed-text</code></a> function is introduced. It allows the contents
of an external text file to be read as a string.</p></li><li><p>Restrictions on the use of variables within patterns and key definitions have been removed; in their place
a more general statement of the restrictions preventing circularity has been formulated. The <a href="#function-current"><code>current</code></a>
function may also now be used within patterns.</p></li><li><p>The built-in templates for element and document nodes now pass any supplied parameter values on
to the templates that they call.</p></li><li><p>A detailed specification of the <a href="#function-format-number"><code>format-number</code></a> function is now provided,
removing the reliance on specifications in Java JDK 1.1.</p></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="div1">
<h2><a name="changes-since-edition-1" id="changes-since-edition-1"/>K Changes since the First Edition (Non-Normative)</h2><p>The changes made to this document are described in detail in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html">Errata</a> to the first edition. The rationale for each erratum
is explained in the corresponding Bugzilla database entry. The following table summarizes
the errata that have been applied.</p><table border="1" cellpadding="5" width="100%"><thead><tr><td>Erratum</td><td>Bugzilla</td><td>Category</td><td>Description</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E1">E1</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4237">4237</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
There are errors in the published schema for XSLT 2.0. The corrected schema has been placed
at http://www.w3.org/2007/schema-for-xslt20.xsd,
overwriting the original, and the version in Appendix G needs to be updated accordingly.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E2">E2</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4315">4315</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The rules for trimming whitespace from attribute values in the stylesheet are unclear.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E3">E3</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4372">4372</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The specification does not constrain the value of the serialization parameter
doctype-public to the values that will be accepted in well-formed XML.
The primary place for such rules is the Serialization specification, but this erratum
adds a sentence to the XSLT specification to make it clear that restrictions apply.
The change affects xsl:output and xsl:result-document.
A corresponding change is being made to the Serialization specification: see
Serialization erratum E1.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E4">E4</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2321">2321</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The specification for format-date and related functions was intended to
give implementations complete freedom to localize messages, but can be read
as being over-prescriptive.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E5">E5</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2388">2388</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The term "static error" is poorly defined.
The concept is defined in terms of when it is detected,
which is circular, given that the specification goes on to state requirements
on processors to detect static errors before evaluation starts.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E6">E6</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4464">4464</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
There are no rules preventing misuse of the xmlns namespace.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E7">E7</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4513">4513</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
A non-normative note concerning namespace fixup is potentially misleading. This erratum confirms
that the rules for choice of a prefix in xsl:element and xsl:attribute
take precedence.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E8">E8</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4589">4589</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The specification of xsl:for-each-group does not mention the impact of
stable="no" when sorting groups. This erratum confirms that stable="no"
has the expected effect in this situation.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E9">E9</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4591">4591</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The rules for defaulting of the namespace attribute in xsl:import-schema
are unclear.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E10">E10</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4600">4600</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The specification does not state that duplicate attributes can be validated
before they are discarded. This erratum clarifies that an error may be reported when
a constructed attribute has an invalid value, even if the attribute is subsequently
discarded as a duplicate.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E11">E11</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4620">4620</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The scope of a conditional sentence is unclear. It is possible to misread
the paragraph in section 2.4 that starts "If the initial template has
an as attribute..." as if this condition applies to the whole paragraph,
whereas it actually applies only to the first sentence of the paragraph.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E12">E12</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4548">4548</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
Identity constraints are scoped to an element, so they should be applied
when validating at element level. This change is worded as a "should" so that
existing processors remain conformant.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E13">E13</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4849">4849</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
A comma has been doubled in 13.1.2.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E14">E14</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4546">4546</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
This erratum defines a new system property
('supports-namespace-axis') which implementations may choose to
provide to indicate whether they allow use of the namespace axis.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E15">E15</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4696">4696</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The explanatory text for the type-available function
misrepresents the use cases for this function. The effect of the erratum is to document
its limitations when used in a use-when expression.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E16">E16</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3069">3069</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
Error XTDE0485 should not be listed, as it can never happen. (The change log
in the Proposed Recommendation reported that this error had been
removed, but the decision to delete it was not implemented.)
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E17">E17</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4878">4878</a></td><td>markup</td><td>
Error XTTE0950 is listed in the wrong section of Appendix E
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E18">E18</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3336">3336</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
A change that clarified the namespace fixup rules was agreed during the Candidate
Recommendation phase but was incorrectly applied. (Note: this erratum incorporates
change 5 of Erratum E6.)
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E19">E19</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4843">4843</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
Current mode is underspecified: it is unclear what its value should be in
all circumstances.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E20">E20</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5278">5278</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
It is unclear what should happen when errors occur during xsl:message processing
(in particular, serialization errors).
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E21">E21</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5482">5482</a></td><td>markup</td><td>
There are two full stops after the description of error XTSE0530.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E22">E22</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5571">5571</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Error in example of format-time call.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E23">E23</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5853">5853</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Error in example of format-date call using the Islamic calendar.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E24">E24</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5309">5309</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
Examples of format-time use GMT+1 and GMT+01:00 interchangeably,
and it is not clear which should be used when.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E25">E25</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5295">5295</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The specification of xsl:for-each-group needs to take into account
the non-transitivity of the eq operator.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E26">E26</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5324">5324</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The description of the case-order attribute in xsl:sort needs to
be clarified.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E27">E27</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5667">5667</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Add warning that with character maps (as well as disable-output-escaping) there is no
guarantee that the serialized output will be well formed or valid.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E28">E28</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6093">6093</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Error in example of inline schema. The select expression of the variable needs to
explicitly convert the supplied value to the type defined in the schema; declaring the
type is not enough.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E29">E29</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5308">5308</a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5309">5309</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
Examples of format-time use GMT+1 and GMT+01:00 interchangeably,
and it is not clear which should be used when. It is also unclear whether "Z" or "+00:00" should be
used for the UTC timezone. (Supersedes erratum E24)
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E30">E30</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5849">5849</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
The rule for numbering with level="any" gives a counter-intuitive result in the case where the
selected node (or another counted node) matches the "from" pattern.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E31">E31</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5893">5893</a></td><td>substantive</td><td>
There is no way for an overriding xsl:output or xsl:result-document instruction to indicate that
the serialization parameters doctype-system or doctype-public should take the value "absent", overriding
a previously specified explicit value.
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E32">E32</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6140">6140</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Editorial inconsistencies in the description of disable-output-escaping
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E33">E33</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6164">6164</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The rules determining when a key is evaluated in backwards-compatible mode are unclear
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E34">E34</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6186">6186</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
The description of xsl:number contains unspecific references to the Unicode specification
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E35">E35</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6282">6282</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Error in example of xsl:processing-instruction
</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2007/qt-errata/xslt-errata.html#E36">E36</a></td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6231">6231</a></td><td>editorial</td><td>
Nothing is said about the default collation in the absence of the [xsl:]default-collation attribute
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