> Doesn't this break the stylesheet? If the annotations are 
> outside of a 
> template, then it is incorrect XSLT syntax, and if inside, they will 
> get copied to the output? Or am I missing something?

XSLT allows elements in a user-defined namespace to appear at the top
level, and mandates that the XSLT processor should ignore them. It also
allows elements in such a namespace to appear as instructions, provided
the namespace is nominated as an extension namespace.

Michael Kay
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