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Template instructions

A number of instructions may appear within a template, including comments, processing instructions, elements and attributes.

Template entity

The instructions allowed directly within a Template element are in some cases also allowed within the instructions themselves (with the exception of the Param element). For convenience, the Template entity is defined to group these elements:

<!ENTITY % template " (#PCDATA %instructions;
                 %result-elements;)* " >

Elements that refer to this entity include the If, When, Otherwise, With Parameter, Variable, Parameter, Copy, Message and Fallback elements.

Comment element

A Comment element is defined as follows:

<!ELEMENT xsl:comment %char-template; >

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