XSLT Methods (Compact 2013)

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11/04/2015

3/26/2014

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) uses the methods listed in the following table.

Method	Description
absoluteChildNumber Method	Returns the number of the node relative to all siblings.
ancestorChildNumber Method	Returns the number of the nearest ancestor of a node with the requested node name.
appendChild Method	Appends newChild as the last child of this node.
childNumber Method	Returns the number of the node relative to siblings of the same node name.
cloneNode Method	Creates a new node that is an exact clone of this node.
depth Method	Returns the depth within the document tree at which the specified node appears.
formatDate Method	Formats the supplied date using the specified formatting options.
formatIndex Method	Formats the supplied integer using the specified numerical system.
formatNumber Method	Formats the supplied number using the specified format.
formatTime Method	Formats the supplied time using the specified formatting options.
hasChildNodes Method	Returns True if this node has children.
insertBefore Method	Inserts a child node to the left of the specified node or at the end of the list.
removeChild Method	Removes the specified child node from the list of children and returns it.
replaceChild Method	Replaces the specified old child node with the supplied new child node in the set of children of this node, and returns the old child node.
selectNodes Method	Applies the specified pattern-matching operation to this node's context and returns the list of matching nodes.
selectSingleNode Method	Applies the specified pattern-matching operation to this node's context and returns the first matching node.
transformNode Method	Processes this node and its children using the supplied Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) style sheet and returns the resulting transformation.
transformNodeToObject Method	Processes this node and its children using the supplied XSLT style sheet and returns the resulting transformation in the supplied object.
uniqueID Method	Returns the unique identifier for the supplied node.

* denotes an extension to the W3C DOM.

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