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<h3>
<a name="apply-imports"></a>Overriding Template Rules</h3>

      
<p class="element-syntax">
<a name="element-apply-imports"></a><code>&lt;!--
      Category: instruction --&gt;<br>
      &lt;xsl:apply-imports&nbsp;/&gt;</code>
</p>

      
<p>A template rule that is being used to override a template rule in an
      imported stylesheet (see <a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#conflict">[<b>5.5 Conflict Resolution for
      Template Rules</b>]</a>) can use the <code>xsl:apply-imports</code> element
      to invoke the overridden template rule.</p>

      
<p>
<a name="dt-current-template-rule"></a>At any point in the processing of a
      stylesheet, there is a <b>current template rule</b>.  Whenever a template
      rule is chosen by matching a pattern, the template rule becomes the current
      template rule for the instantiation of the rule's template. When an
      <code>xsl:for-each</code> element is instantiated, the current template rule
      becomes null for the instantiation of the content of the
      <code>xsl:for-each</code> element.</p>

      
<p>
<code>xsl:apply-imports</code> processes the current node using only
      template rules that were imported into the stylesheet element containing the
      current template rule; the node is processed in the current template rule's
      mode.  It is an error if <code>xsl:apply-imports</code> is instantiated when
      the current template rule is null.</p>

      
<p>For example, suppose the stylesheet <code>doc.xsl</code> contains a
      template rule for <code>example</code> elements:</p>
      
<pre>&lt;xsl:template match="example"&gt;
        &lt;pre&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre>

      
<p>Another stylesheet could import <code>doc.xsl</code> and modify the
      treatment of <code>example</code> elements as follows:</p>
      
<pre>&lt;xsl:import href="doc.xsl"/&gt;

&lt;xsl:template match="example"&gt;
  &lt;div style="border: solid red"&gt;
     &lt;xsl:apply-imports/&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;</pre>

      
<p>The combined effect would be to transform an <code>example</code> into an
      element of the form:</p>
      
<pre>&lt;div style="border: solid red"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;...&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
    
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