xsl:output

name?

eqname

Provides a name for this output format, which may be referenced in the xsl:result-document element. By default, the unnamed output format is used.

recoverable?

{ boolean }

method?

"xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | eqname

Indicates the format or destination of the output. The value xml indicates XML output (though if disable-output-escaping or character maps are used there is no guarantee that it is well-formed). A value of html is used for HTML output, and xhtml for XHTML. The value text indicates plain text output: in this case no markup may be written to the file using constructs such as literal result elements, xsl:element, xsl:attribute, or xsl:comment. Alternatively output can be directed to a user-defined Java program by specifying the name of the class as the value of the method attribute, prefixed by a namespace prefix, for example xx:com.me.myjava.MyEmitter. The class must be on the classpath, and must implement either the org.xml.sax.ContentHandler interface, or the Receiver interface. The last of these, though proprietary, is a richer interface that gives access to additional information.

byte-order-mark?

boolean

cdata-section-elements?

eqnames

Used only for XML output. The value is a whitespace-separated list of element names. Character data belonging to these output elements will be written within CDATA sections.

doctype-public?

string

Used only for XML output: it is copied into the DOCTYPE declaration as the public identifier. Ignored if there is no system identifier. If the value is an empty string, Saxon interprets this as if the attribute were omitted, which can be useful it you want to override an actual value with "absent".

doctype-system?

string

Used only for XML output: it is copied into the DOCTYPE declaration as the system identifier. If the value is an empty string, Saxon interprets this as if the attribute were omitted, which can be useful it you want to override an actual value with "absent".

encoding?

string

A character encoding, e.g. iso-8859-1 or utf-8. The value must be one recognised both by the Java run-time system and by Saxon itself: the encoding names that Saxon recognises are ASCII, US-ASCII, iso-8859-1, utf-8, utf8, KOI8R, cp1251. It is used for three distinct purposes: to control character conversion by the Java I/O routines; to determine which characters will be represented as character entities; and to document the encoding in the output file itself. The default (and fallback) is utf-8.

escape-uri-attributes?

boolean

New in XSLT 2.0. Affects HTML output only. Controls whether non-ASCII characters in HTML URI-valued attributes (for example, href) are escaped using the %HH convention. The default is yes.

html-version?

decimal

New in XSLT 3.0. Implemented since Saxon 9.6. When the output method is HTML or XHTML, then if this attribute takes decimal value 5.0, then the output produced is HTML 5.0 or XHTML 5.0 respectively.

include-content-type?

boolean

New in XSLT 2.0. Affects HTML output only. Controls whether a meta tag is inserted into the HTML head element. The default is yes.

indent?

boolean

The indentation algorithm is different for HTML and XML. For HTML it avoids outputting extra space before or after an inline element, but will indent text as well as tags, except in elements such as PRE and SCRIPT. For XML, it avoids outputting extra whitespace except between two tags. The emphasis is on conformance rather than aesthetics!

item-separator?

string

media-type?

string

For example, text/xml or text/html. This is largely documentary. However, the value assigned is passed back to the calling application in the OutputDetails object, where it can be accessed using the getMediaType() method. The supplied servlet application SaxonServlet uses this to set the media type in the HTTP header.

normalization-form?

"NFC" | "NFD" | "NFKC" | "NFKD" | "fully-normalized" | "none" | nmtoken

omit-xml-declaration?

boolean

For XML output this controls whether an XML declaration should be output; the default is no.

parameter-document?

uri

standalone?

boolean | "omit"

Used only for XML output: if it is present, a standalone attribute is included in the XML declaration, with the value yes or no.

suppress-indentation?

eqnames

New in XSLT 3.0 (it was previously available in Saxon as an extension). The value is a whitespace-separated list of element names, and it typically identifies "inline" elements that should not cause indentation; in XHTML, for example, these would be b, i, span, and the like.

undeclare-prefixes?

boolean

use-character-maps?

eqnames

A space-separated list of the names of character maps (see xsl:character-map) which will be applied to transform individual characters during serialization.

version?

nmtoken

Determines the version of XML or HTML to be output. This is largely documentary. However, for XML the distinction between 1.0 and 1.1 determines whether or not namespace undeclarations will be output; and for HTML, the value 5 can be used to force the HTML5 style of DOCTYPE declaration.