The XSL Mindset

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XSL Nodes

An XML document contains a single root node that contains one or more children that are also nodes. Each node can contain a mixture of text data, attributes, and child nodes. XSL distinguishes among the following types of nodes:

• root node

• element nodes

• attribute nodes

• namespace nodes

• processing instruction nodes

• element nodes

• text nodes

You can distinguish between different types of nodes in an XSL stylesheet, which gives you fine-grained control of the manner in which you can manipulate the contents of an XML document.

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