27. xsl:result-document in SaxonJS

You’ve seen xsl:result-document in a few of the exercises, but it’s time we explained what’s going on.

• The xsl:result-document instruction is used to create a secondary result.

• SaxonJS leverages this to produce results “on” the browser’s web page.

• If the href attribute begins with “#”, for example #main, SaxonJS will put the secondary result in the web page element with the corresponding id, “main” in this case.

• By default, the secondary result is appended to the end of the content on the web page.

• If you specify the method, “ixsl:replace-content”, it will replace the entire contents. (You can specify ixsl:append-content explicitly, if you wish.)