closing a template inside a table, forbidden?

Hy,

is this forbidden ?

-----CODE-----

<xsl:template match="article">
<table>
...
 
</table>        
        <!-- ************SECT1 PROCESSING CONTENT ************** -->
                
                <table width="610" height="48" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 
border="0" id="sectBackground">
                
                <xsl:apply-templates select="./title[(_at_)lang= $lang]"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang = $lang or 
not(@lang)]"/>

  </xsl:template>
                
                <xsl:template match="article/sect1[(_at_)lang= $lang or 
not(@lang)]">
                 
                                  
                                  <xsl:apply-templates/>

                </table>

----CODE----

I get the following error:

The element type "table" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

description org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating 
Transform Handler: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "table" must 
be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

And if it is forbidden, why?

Thanks.
Steve


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