XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition (227 page)

xsl:result-document

The

instruction is used to create a new result tree, and optionally to specify how the result tree should be serialized. The facility allows a transformation to produce multiple result documents, so you can write a stylesheet that splits a large XML file into smaller XML files, or into multiple HTML files, perhaps connected to each other by hyperlinks.

Changes in 2.0

This instruction is new in XSLT 2.0. Many XSLT 1.0 processors provided a similar capability as a proprietary extension, but there are likely to be differences in the detail. The abandoned working draft of XSLT 1.1 used the name

for a similar instruction, and it was implemented under this name in some products.

Format

Position

is an instruction, which means it may occur anywhere in a sequence constructor.

Attributes

Name	Value	Meaning
format optional	Attribute value template returning a lexical QName	Defines the required output format.
href optional	Attribute value template returning a relative or absolute URI	Defines the location where the output document will be written after serialization.
validation optional	strict , lax , preserve , or strip	Defines the validation to be applied to the result tree.
type optional	Lexical QName	Defines the schema type against which the document element should be validated.
method optional	Attribute value template returning xml , html , xhtml , text , or a prefixed lexical QName	Defines the serialization method to be used.