Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements
	Introduction
	xsl:analyze-string
	xsl:apply-imports
	xsl:apply-templates
	xsl:attribute
	xsl:attribute-set
	xsl:call-template
	xsl:character-map
	xsl:choose
	xsl:comment
	xsl:copy
	xsl:copy-of
	xsl:decimal-format
	xsl:document
	xsl:element
»	xsl:fallback
	xsl:for-each
	xsl:for-each-group
	xsl:function
	xsl:if
	xsl:include
	xsl:import
	xsl:import-schema
	xsl:key
	xsl:matching-substring
	xsl:message
	xsl:namespace
	xsl:namespace-alias
	xsl:next-match
	xsl:non-matching-substring
	xsl:number
	xsl:otherwise
	xsl:output
	xsl:output-character
	xsl:param
	xsl:perform-sort
	xsl:preserve-space
	xsl:processing-instruction
	xsl:result-document
	xsl:sequence
	xsl:sort
	xsl:strip-space
	xsl:stylesheet
	xsl:template
	xsl:text
	xsl:value-of
	xsl:variable
	xsl:when
	xsl:with-param
	Literal Result Elements
	XSLT Patterns

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

xsl:fallback

The xsl:fallback element is used to define recovery action to be taken when an instruction element is used in the stylesheet and no implementation of that element is available. An element is an instruction element if its namespace URI is the standard URI for XSLT elements or if its namespace is identified in the xsl:extension-element-prefixes attribute of a containing literal result element, or in the extension-element-prefixes attribute of the xsl:stylesheet element.

If the xsl:fallback element appears in any other context, it is ignored, together with all its child and descendant elements.

There are no attributes.

If the parent element can be instantiated and processed, the xsl:fallback element and its descendants are ignored. If the parent element is not recognised of if any failure occurs instantiating it, all its xsl:fallback children are processed in turn. If there are no xsl:fallback children, an error is reported.