xsl:text

Causes its content to be output. The main reason for enclosing text within an xsl:text element is to allow whitespace to be output. Whitespace nodes in the stylesheet are ignored unless they appear immediately within an xsl:text element.

Category: instruction
Content: sequence-constructor
Permitted parent elements: any XSLT element whose content model is sequence-constructor; any literal result element

Attributes

`select?`	`expression`	New in XSLT 4.0. The string value of the new text node can be defined either by a `select` attribute or by an enclosed sequence constructor.
`separator?`	`{ string }`	New in XSLT 4.0. The separator defaults to a single space if the `select` attribute is used, or to a zero-length string if a sequence constructor is used. The `separator` attribute may be specified as an attribute value template.
`cdata?`	`{ boolean }`	New in XSLT 4.0. Used to request serialization of a text node as a CDATA section.
`[disable-output-escaping]?`	`boolean`	If set to `yes`, special characters such as "<" and "&" will be output as themselves, not as entities. Be aware that in general this can produce non-well-formed XML or HTML. It is useful, however, when generating things such as ASP or JSP pages. Escaping may not be disabled when writing to a result tree fragment. The default is `no`.

Saxon availability

Available in XSLT 1.0 and later versions. Available in all Saxon editions. Available for all platforms.

Notes on the Saxon implementation

The XSLT 4.0 attributes select, separator and cdata are implemented since Saxon 13.

Details

In XSLT 3.0, note that generally text value templates (expressions within curly braces) are NOT recognized within xsl:text. However the standard attribute expand-text can be used to enable their use. Text value templates can be used within an xsl:text element if the nearest ancestor which has an expand-text attribute has the value yes for this attribute. (See xsl:stylesheet for details on the standard attribute expand-text.)

Links to W3C specifications

XSLT 3.0 Specification

XSLT 4.0 Specification