closing a template inside a table, forbidden?

Hy,

is this forbidden ?

-----CODE-----

<xsl:template match="article">
<table>
...
 
</table>	
	<!-- ************SECT1 PROCESSING CONTENT ************** -->
		
		<table width="610" height="48" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" id="sectBackground">
		
		<xsl:apply-templates select="./title[@lang= $lang]"/>
		<xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[@lang = $lang or not(@lang)]"/>

  </xsl:template>
		
		<xsl:template match="article/sect1[@lang= $lang or not(@lang)]">
		 
		 		  
		 		  <xsl:apply-templates/>

		</table>

----CODE----

I get the following error:

The element type "table" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

description org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating Transform Handler: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "table" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

And if it is forbidden, why?

Thanks.
Steve


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