SAXONICA

Saxon Documentation
Full Contents
About Saxon
Changes in this Release
Conditions of Use
Using XSLT 2.0
Using XQuery
Handling Source Documents
XML Schema Processing
XPath API for Java
Saxon on .NET
Extensibility
Saxon Extensions
Sample Saxon Applications
The Saxon SQL Extension
XSLT Elements
| Introduction
| xsl:analyze-string
| xsl:apply-imports
| xsl:apply-templates
| xsl:attribute
| xsl:attribute-set
| xsl:call-template
| xsl:character-map
| xsl:choose
| xsl:comment
| xsl:copy
| xsl:copy-of
| xsl:decimal-format
| xsl:document
| xsl:element
» | xsl:fallback
| xsl:for-each
| xsl:for-each-group
| xsl:function
| xsl:if
| xsl:include
| xsl:import
| xsl:import-schema
| xsl:key
| xsl:matching-substring
| xsl:message
| xsl:namespace
| xsl:namespace-alias
| xsl:next-match
| xsl:non-matching-substring
| xsl:number
| xsl:otherwise
| xsl:output
| xsl:output-character
| xsl:param
| xsl:perform-sort
| xsl:preserve-space
| xsl:processing-instruction
| xsl:result-document
| xsl:sequence
| xsl:sort
| xsl:strip-space
| xsl:stylesheet
| xsl:template
| xsl:text
| xsl:value-of
| xsl:variable
| xsl:when
| xsl:with-param
| Literal Result Elements
| XSLT Patterns
XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax
Function Library
Standards Conformance

# xsl:fallback

The `xsl:fallback` element is used to define recovery action to be taken when an instruction element is used in the stylesheet and no implementation of that element is available. An element is an instruction element if its namespace URI is the standard URI for XSLT elements or if its namespace is identified in the `xsl:extension-element-prefixes` attribute of a containing literal result element, or in the `extension-element-prefixes` attribute of the `xsl:stylesheet` element.

If the `xsl:fallback` element appears in any other context, it is ignored, together with all its child and descendant elements.

There are no attributes.

If the parent element can be instantiated and processed, the `xsl:fallback` element and its descendants are ignored. If the parent element is not recognised of if any failure occurs instantiating it, all its xsl:fallback children are processed in turn. If there are no xsl:fallback children, an error is reported.

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