Moving to XML

Beginning XSL-T [ii] The 'stylesheet' tag

<?xml version="1.0"?>

• This says this stylesheet is written in XML; it should be the first line of every XML document
• Yes, XSL is a dialect of XML
• version=1.0 says it's version 1.0 of XML

<xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

• Every XSL-T 'stylesheet' starts with this
• xsl:stylesheet says it's a stylesheet
• version=1.0 says it's version 1.0 of XSL
• xmlns says the namesspace definition of names which start with 'xsl:' is identified by the URL http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

Full text of this presentation | Table of Contents | No Frames Author: Simon Brooke | Copyright © 1998-2001 Weft Technology Ltd Slide 97 of 109