XML/XSLT stylesheet/root
Match from / (root)
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<emailList>
<person>
<name>name 1</name>
<email>g@gmail.ru</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>name 2</name>
<email>n@hotmail.ru</email>
</person>
</emailList>
File: Transform.xslt
<?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>
<head>
<title>Email Listing</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>E-mail Address</th>
</tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="emailList">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="person">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="email"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Email Listing</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>E-mail Address</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>name 1</td>
<td>g@gmail.ru</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>name 2</td>
<td>n@hotmail.ru</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Select from root
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Transform.xslt"?>
<greeting>Hello World!</greeting>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<html xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xsl:version="2.0">
<head><title>Hello World Example</title></head>
<body>
<p>
<xsl:value-of select="/greeting" />
</p>
</body>
</html>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Hello World Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>