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The elements described in this section can appear only
as children of the root <xsl:stylesheet> element. They
specify options that affect the entire translation of the
input file to the output.
This optional tag defines what tag format to use in
the output file. The default is XML format. This tag
must be a child of the root
<xsl:stylesheet> element.
Attributes include:
methodValues include xml for XML
output; html for output as HTML;
and text if the output is just
ordinary text, not tagged.
versionIdentifies the version of the output method.
omit-xml-declaration
If the output method is XML, a
<?xml...?> processing
instruction is written to the output file unless
you specify
omit-xml-declaration="yes".
The default is "no". No XML
declaration is written for the other output
methods.
indent
Use indent="yes" to request
that XML or HTMl output be indented. Some XSLT
processors may not support this option.
encoding
Specifies the character encoding that will appear
in the XML processing instruction, if one is
generated. Examples:
ISO-8859-1,
UTF-8.
doctype-system
Use this attribute to add a
<!DOCTYPE> declaration
to generated HTML or XML.
If you want to generate a
SYSTEM document type, set
this attribute to the URI containing the DTD.
doctype-public
If you want to generate a
<!DOCTYPE> declaration
using a public identifier, set this attribute to
the public identifier and also set the
doctype-system attribute to
the URI corresponding to that public identifier.
Here is an example of an <xsl:output> element for
generating strict XHTML 1.0:
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="yes"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/>The file generated with these output options will start like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">