Two ways have been created to allow for modular xsl stylesheet development.
Imports an external xslt stylesheet.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:import href="test.xslt"/> </xsl:stylesheet>
Templates and Definitions in an imported stylesheet have lower precendence.
Includes an external xslt stylesheet.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:include href="test.xslt"/> </xsl:stylesheet>
Templates and Definitions in an included stylesheet have the same precendence.