Inside XSLT

The <xsl:call-template> Element: Using Named Templates

One of the attributes of the <xsl:template> element is name, which you use to give a name to the template. For example, if I have a literal result element consisting of two <BR> and two <HR>HTML elements that I use to create a vertical separator in HTML documents, as follows:

<BR/> 
<HR/> 
<BR/> 
<HR/> 

then I can create a template named “separator” with this literal result element this way:

<xsl:template name="separator"> 
    <BR/> 
    <HR/> 
    <BR/> 
    <HR/> 
</xsl:template> 

This is a named template—all you have to do is assign a name to the name attribute of an <xsl:template> element, and you have a named template.

Note that this template is not set up to match anything in particular. To invoke this ...