xsl:element

name

{ qname }

The name of the generated element. The name attribute is an attribute value template, so it may contain string expressions inside curly braces.

namespace?

{ uri }

The namespace URI of the element.

inherit-namespaces?

boolean

If the value is yes (the default), then the namespace nodes created for the generated element are copied to its children and descendants. If the value is no, then these namespace nodes are not automatically copied.

use-attribute-sets?

eqnames

Attributes of the generated element can be defined by reference to named attribute sets, provided as a whitespace-separated list. They are applied in the order given: if the same attribute is generated more than once, the later value always takes precedence.

type?

eqname

Indicates the data type of the value of the element. The value may be a built-in type defined in XML Schema, for example xs:integer or xs:date, or a user-defined type defined in a schema imported using xsl:import-schema. Type annotations are only accessible if the attribute is added to a temporary tree that specifies type-information="preserve". The attribute causes the content of the element to be validated against the schema definition of the type, and will cause a fatal dynamic error if validation fails.

validation?

"strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "strip"

Requests strict or lax validation of the contents of the new element node against the corresponding global element declaration in the schema.