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Asked: 2026-06-13T20:21:18+00:00

I’m transforming xsl document to html like this: <xsl:template match=/> <html> <head> <title>Title</title> </head>

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I’m transforming xsl document to html like this:

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Title</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        Blah-blah
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

Is it right way? Or, maybe, using of xsl:element is better? I didn’t saw examples with such variant:

 <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:element name="html">
      <xsl:element name="head">
        <xsl:element name="title">
          Title
        </xsl:element>
      </xsl:element>
      <xsl:element name="body">
        Blah-blah
      </xsl:element>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

Which variant is right?
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  1. Editorial Team

    A literal result element (i.e. your first approach) is shorter, easier to type and easier to read. I would suggest to use xsl:element only in cases where you want to compute the element name and/or namespace dynamically based on input data e.g.

    <xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{translate(local-name(), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')}">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

    In other cases I would use literal result elements as in your first sample. But there is no right or wrong in terms of the result, both variants give the same result tree.

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