<?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="attribute-set" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: xsl:attribute-set</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: xsl:attribute-set"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>xsl:attribute-set</h1> <p>The <code>xsl:attribute-set</code> element is used to declare a named collection of attributes, which will often be used together to define an output style. It is declared at the top level (subordinate to <code>xsl:stylesheet</code>).</p> <p>An attribute-set contains a collection of <code>xsl:attribute</code> elements.</p> <p>The attributes in an attribute-set can be used in several ways:</p> <ul> <li content="para"> <p>They can be added to a literal result element by specifying <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> in the list of attributes for the element. The value is a space-separated list of attribute-set names. Attributes specified explicitly on the literal result element, or added using <code>xsl:attribute</code>, override any that are specified in the attribute-set definition.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>They can be added to an element created using <code>xsl:element</code>, by specifying use-attribute-sets in the list of attributes for the xsl:element element. The value is a space-separated list of attribute-set names. Attributes specified explicitly on the literal result element, or added using <code>xsl:attribute</code>, override any that are specified in the attribute-set definition.</p> </li> <li content="para"> <p>One attribute set can be based on another by specifying <code>use-attribute-sets</code> in the list of attributes for the <code>xsl:attribute-set</code> element. Again, attributes defined explicitly in the attribute set override any that are included implicitly from another attribute set.</p> </li> </ul> <p>Attribute sets named in the <code>xsl:use-attribute-sets</code> or <code>use-attribute-sets</code> attribute are applied in the order given: if the same attribute is generated more than once, the later value always takes precedence.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="break.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>