xsl:output Element

Specifies options for use in serializing the result tree.

<xsl:output
  method = "xml"
  version = nmtoken 
  encoding = string
  omit-xml-declaration = "yes" | "no"
  standalone = "yes" | "no"
  doctype-public = string 
  doctype-system = string 
  cdata-section-elements = qnames 
  indent = "yes" | "no"
  media-type = string 
  />

Attributes

method: Identifies the overall method used for outputting the result tree.
version: Specifies version "1.0" in relation to the "xml" output method; this appears in the output XML declaration as <?xml version="1.0"?>.
encoding: Specifies the preferred character encoding that the parser should use to encode sequences of characters as sequences of bytes. The value of the attribute is treated case-insensitively; it must contain only printable ASCII characters and be a registered character set, or begin with x-.
omit-xml-declaration: Specifies whether the XSLT processor should output an XML declaration; the value must be yes or no.
standalone: Specifies whether the XSLT processor should output a standalone document declaration; the value must be yes or no.
doctype-public: Specifies the public identifier to be used in the DTD.
doctype-system: Specifies the system identifier to be used in the DTD.
cdata-section-elements: Specifies a list of the names of elements whose text node children should be output using CDATA sections.
indent: Specifies additional whitespace to add when outputting the result tree; the value must be yes or no.
media-type: Specifies the media type (MIME content type) of the data that results from outputting the result tree.

Element Information

Number of occurrences	Unlimited
Parent elements	xsl:stylesheet, xsl:transform
Child elements	(No child elements)

Remarks

A style sheet may contain multiple <xsl:output> elements and may include style sheets that also contain <xsl:output> elements. All the <xsl:output> elements occurring in a style sheet are merged into a single effective <xsl:output> element. It is an error if there is more than one such value for an attribute. The values of attributes are defaulted after the <xsl:output> elements have been merged; different output methods may have different default values for an attribute.