XSLTProcessor: importStylesheet() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The importStylesheet() method of the XSLTProcessor interface imports an XSLT stylesheet for the processor.

Syntax

importStylesheet(style)

Parameters

style: The Node to import. It can be an XML document (that is a Document with doctype whose name of "xml") containing an XSLT stylesheet or a literal result element transform, or an Element representing an <xsl:stylesheet> or <xsl:transform>.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

Using importStylesheet()

This example shows how importStylesheet() loads an XSLT stylesheet into an XSLTProcessor for use in transforming XML data.

HTML

html

<div id="result"></div>

JavaScript

const xmlString = `
<items>
  <item>Item 1</item>
  <item>Item 2</item>
</items>
`;

const xsltString = `
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="items/item">
        <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
`;

const parser = new DOMParser();
const xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(xmlString, "application/xml");
const xsltDoc = parser.parseFromString(xsltString, "application/xml");

const xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();

// Import the XSLT stylesheet into the XSLTProcessor
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsltDoc);

// Perform the transformation from XML to HTML
const resultFragment = xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xmlDoc, document);

// Display the transformed result in the page
document.getElementById("result").appendChild(resultFragment);

Result

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard # dom-xsltprocessor-importstylesheet

Browser compatibility

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