diff --git a/xml/xslt/inline.xslt b/xml/xslt/inline.xslt
index f6cb759..3559d48 100644
--- a/xml/xslt/inline.xslt
+++ b/xml/xslt/inline.xslt
@@ -10,5 +10,11 @@
             </xsl:call-template>
         </xsl:if>
     </xsl:template>
+    
+    <xsl:template match="todo">
+        <xsl:call-template name="displayErrorText">
+                    <xsl:with-param name="string">### TODO<xsl:if test="@desc or not(normalize-space() = '')">: <xsl:value-of select="@desc"/><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:if> ###</xsl:with-param>
+                </xsl:call-template>
+    </xsl:template>
 
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/xml/xslt/placeholders.xslt b/xml/xslt/placeholders.xslt
index bce33ac..40d1d26 100644
--- a/xml/xslt/placeholders.xslt
+++ b/xml/xslt/placeholders.xslt
@@ -478,12 +478,6 @@
         </xsl:choose>
     </xsl:template>
 
-    <xsl:template match="todo">
-        <xsl:call-template name="displayErrorText">
-                    <xsl:with-param name="string">### TODO<xsl:if test="@desc">: <xsl:value-of select="@desc"/></xsl:if> ###</xsl:with-param>
-                </xsl:call-template>
-    </xsl:template>
-
     <xsl:template name="checkPlaceholder">
         <xsl:param name="placeholderElement" select="/"/>
         <xsl:param name="caps" select="'none'"/>