Parameters can be defined on the template level.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template name="test"> <xsl:para name="param1" select="'default-string'"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
This allows calling templates to pass parameters using the with-param element.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:call-template name="test"> <xsl:with-param name="param1" select="'test'"/> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="test"> <xsl:para name="param1" select="'default-string'"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>