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In the 2nd Last Call of the XSLT 3.0 specification, section "6.6.1 Declaring modes" provides the syntax of an <xsl:mode> declaration as: <!-- Category: declaration --> < xsl:mode name? = eqname streamable? = boolean on-no-match? = "deep-copy" | "shallow-copy" | "deep-skip" | "shallow-skip" | "text-only-copy" | "fail" on-multiple-match? = "use-last" | "fail" warning-on-no-match? = boolean warning-on-multiple-match? = boolean typed? = boolean | "strict" | "lax" | "unspecified" visibility? = "public" | "private" | "final" /> As we clearly see, there is no provision that an <xsl:mode> can have any content (such as children elements). However, at the end of the section we read: "The above rules apply both to the attributes (other than name) of the xsl:mode element itself, and to the attributes of the contained xsl:context-item element if present." So, it seems that an <xsl:mode> can have as a child an <xsl:context-item> element. This clearly is in conflict with the syntax above, and the fact that an "xsl:mode" can have content/children is not mentioned anywhere in the whole section "6.6 Modes". One could wonder which is right: the syntax definition above (no content), or the sentence that implies that an <xsl:mode> can have an <xsl:context-item> element as child. If the latter is true, then probably there might be yet other children elements of <xsl:mode> -- also unmentioned? It seems that in its current version, the text defining <xsl:mode> is incomplete and doesn't provide important information about the structure/content of this XSLT declaration. Hope that this observation would be reflected in a future, needed correction. -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev
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