THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Computed result fragments

Result fragments can be computed using XPath expressions:

<xsl:element name="..." namespace="..."> ... </...>
construct an element with the given name, attributes, and contents
<xsl:attribute name="..." namespace="..."> ... </...>
construct an attribute (inside xsl:element)
<xsl:value-of select="..."/>
construct character data or attribute value (expression converted to string)
<xsl:processing-instruction name="..."> ... </...>
construct a processing instruction

The attributes may contain {expression}: XPath expressions which are evaluated (and coerced to string) on instantiation.

Example:

<xsl:template match="section"> <xsl:element name="sec{@level}"> <xsl:attribute name="kind"> <xsl:value-of select="kind"/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:element> </xsl:template>

This template rule converts
<section level="3"><kind>intro</kind></section>
into
<sec3 kind="intro"/>.