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instead if you are more experienced in XSLT and are more comfortable using it.
Two more items must be included within an XSLT document that follows the guidelines
found in the XSLT specification. These are a local namespace declaration and the
"version" attribute. The following stylesheet file shows the xsl:stylesheet element, the
namespace declaration, and the version attribute:
Example 6.6. XSL Simple Stylsheet File
The namespace URI (http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform) is always listed exactly as
shown, and the version attribute should have a value of 1.0 for the document to conform to
the November 1999 XSLT specification (which all XML and XSL used by SYSPRO e.net
solutions does). As future versions of the specification are released, this version number
can be changed, depending on what features the XSLT document uses.
XSLT version 2.0 was in Candidate Recommendation at the time this chapter
was written. All the examples used in this book use XSLT version 1.0.
6.1.4.2. Other XSLT Elements
If you have experience in programming in HTML you will already know how HTML
elements are used to perform specific tasks. For example, you know that the
element is used with the and elements to construct a table for display in a
browser. You know that the element is used to display an image, and that the
element is used as to define different page locations and divisions. In HTML, each of these
elements have a specific purpose. Each of the elements of XSLT has a specific purpose as
well.
The XSLT version 1.0 specification lists the elements that are used to transform XML
documents. The elements can be used in many different ways. They can be used as to
perform programming logic, performing if/then statements, looping, and writing out data
within a node. They can also be used to determine the output format. An XSLT element is
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