THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Literal result fragments

A literal result fragment is:

a text constant (character data)
an element not belonging to the XSL namespace
<xsl:text ...> ... </...> (as raw text, but with white-space and character escaping control)
<xsl:comment> ... </...> (inserts a comment )

Since literal fragments are part of the stylesheet XML document, only well-formed XML will be generated.

Example:

<xsl:template match="..."> this text is written directly to output when this template is instantiated </xsl:template>