XSLT is a language used to transform XML documents into XHTML documents or other XML documents.

XSLT <xsl:template> element syntax

The

<xsl:template> element is used to build templates.

The match attribute is used to associate XML elements with templates. The match attribute can also be used to define a template for the entire XML document. The value of the match attribute is an XPath expression (for example, match="/" defines the entire document).

XSLT <xsl:template> element example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
  <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
  <table border="1">
    <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
      <th>Title</th>
      <th>Artist</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>.</td>
      <td>.</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
  </html>
    </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>