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xsl: otherwise

xsl:otherwise provides a default for multiple condition testing, used with the xsl:choose and xsl:when elements. A similar construct is the else keyword in most programming languages that is used with an if statement.

Attributes

None.

Example

Suppose that you want to create a numbered outline from the data in an XML file. Consider the following XML file, links.xml :

 <links>       <link name="NewRiders.com" URL="http://www.newriders.com"> />       <link name="Xmlandasp.net" URL="http://www.xmlandasp.net" />       <link name="MSDN Online Library" URL="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library"  />  </links>

Specify that you are outputting version 4.0 HTML and do not want an XML declaration at the beginning of the output:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>      <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">      <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />      <xsl:template match="/">           <html>                <head></head>                <body></body>                <table>                     <xsl:apply-templates />                </table>           </html>       </xsl:template>       <xsl:template match="link">            <tr>                 <td>                     <xsl:value-of select="@name" />                 </td>            </tr>       </xsl:template>  </xsl:stylesheet>

Applying the stylesheet to links.xml would produce version 4.0-compliant HTML. Notice the meta tag generated that specifies the content type, and the lack of an XML declaration at the beginning of the HTML output:

 <html>       <head>            <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">       </head>       <body>       </body>       <table>            <tr>                 <td>                      NewRiders.com                 </td>            </tr>            <tr>                 <td>                      Xmlandasp.net                 </td>            </tr>            <tr>                 <td>                      MSDN Online Library                 </td>            </tr>       </table>  </html>

Parent Elements

 xsl:choose

Child Elements

 xsl:apply-templates, xsl:attribute, xsl:call-template, xsl:choose,  xsl:comment, xsl:copy, xsl:copy-of, xsl:element, xsl:for-each, xsl:if,  xsl:processing-instruction, xsl:text, xsl:value-of, xsl:variable, output  elements

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