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			ELEMENT: xsl:attribute-set <xsl:attribute-set name="qname" use-attribute-sets="qnames" > </xsl:attribute-set> The xsl:attribute-set element defines and names a set containing zero or more xsl:attribute elements. Each of the xsl:attribute elements are applied to the output in the order that they occur inside the xsl:attribute-set element. An xsl:attribute element allows you to create an attribute node, define a value, and add it to the output. The xsl:attribute-set element can only be a child of the xsl:stylesheet or the xsl:transform elements. The concept is that you can create a set of attributes that can be applied more than once by simply calling the attribute set by name. This is not a self-closing element. The separate closing element is mandatory. name="qname" The mandatory name attribute is the name of the attribute set. It must be a qname. A qname is a qualified name that is composed of an optional namespace prefix, a colon, which is only present if there is a prefix, and a mandatory XML name (for example, xsl:zipcode or zipcode). *use-attribute-sets="qnames"* The optional use-attribute-sets attribute is a white-space-delimited list of one or more qnames of attribute sets. In other words, it is a collection of attribute set names. Each of the xsl:attribute elements in all of the attribute sets are applied to the output in the order in which they occur in the use-attribute-sets attribute. This is done by adding the use-attribute-sets attribute to the HTML tag or XSLT element using the following syntax: <table xsl:use-attribute-sets="name"> <xsl:copy use-attribute-sets="name"> ... </xsl:copy> We use the DevGuru Staff List XML file for our example with the following header: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xslt_example_attributeset.xsl"?> and we name it: xslt_example_attributeset.xml In this example we set the border, cellpadding, and cellspacing values for a table. We only apply the attribute set to one table, but it can be applied to any number of tables to give a similar look. Code for xslt_example_attributeset.xsl: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:attribute-set name="set_table"> <xsl:attribute name="border"> 5 </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="cellpadding"> 15 </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="cellspacing"> 10 </xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute-set> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <table xsl:use-attribute-sets="set_table"> <xsl:for-each select="devguru_staff/programmer"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="name" /></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="age" /></td> </tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: Click to view output in separate window - requires Internet Explorer