Alternative elements

When the same formatting needs to be applied to the content of a number of different elements, it is not necessary to create a separate template for each one. Instead, a pattern can be used that specifies a list of alternatives. The '|' symbol is used for this purpose, and is placed between the element names:

match="X | Y | Z"

This technique could be used to format names and foreign terms in the same way:

match="name | foreign"


   <para>The <foreign>de facto</foreign> stylesheet
   language is <name>XSLT</name>.</para>

The de facto stylesheet language is XSLT