XSLT 1.0 says in section 5.7:

If xsl:template does not have a match attribute, it must not have a mode
attribute.

It's a rather arbitrary rule, because in many similar cases redundant
attributes are simply ignored: but it's there.

It should be safe to delete the attribute, since mode has no meaning when
templates are called by name.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shridhar Venkatraman [mailto:Shridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 May 2007 10:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Compatibility Question
> 
> In trying out ODF2HTML a xslt based conversion of Open Office 
> documents to HTML, I find the XSLT has a few situations where 
> Saxon and XALAN throw compile/syntax errors. However, the 
> XSLT within FireFox does not.
> 
> An example is the 'Mode' attribute in call-template.
> 'The mode attribute must be absent if the match attribute is absent'
> 
> This module comes with commands for xsltproc which we do not 
> use, which lead me to google and then to this list.
> 
> Am I right in assuming that XSLTPROC is incompatible with the 
> standards and that Saxon and Xalan are and hence this problem ?
> 
> Using Saxon 6.5.5 XSL 1.0 JRE1.6.1