<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="xsl-elements" page="stylesheet" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: xsl:stylesheet</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: xsl:stylesheet"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>xsl:stylesheet</h1> <p>The <code>xsl:stylesheet</code> element is always the top-level element of an XSLT stylesheet. The name <code>xsl:transform</code> may be used as a synonym.</p> <p>The following attributes may be specified:</p> <table> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>version</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Mandatory. A value other than "1.0" invokes forwards compatibility mode.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>saxon:trace</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Value "yes" or "no": default no. If set to "yes", causes activation of templates to be traced on System.err for diagnostic purposes. The value may be overridden by specifying a saxon:trace attribute on the individual template.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="template.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>