diff --git a/format-master.xml b/format-master.xml
index 2c91dbb..e27df90 100755
--- a/format-master.xml
+++ b/format-master.xml
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@
 		<common formats="/html/xhtml/">_</common>
 	</template>
 
+	<template name="backslash" match="backslash">
+		<common formats="/latex/xelatex/">\(\backslash\)</common>
+		<!-- U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS -->
+		<common formats="/html/xhtml/">\</common>
+	</template>
+
 	<template name="apostrophe" match="apostrophe|right-single-quotation-mark">
 		<common formats="/latex/xelatex/">'</common>
 		<html><xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;rsquo;</xsl:text></html>
@@ -2995,7 +3001,7 @@
 		don't need identical templates for math and non-math modes. Yay!
 
 		Do we really need <left-parenthesis> and <right-parenthesis>?
-		Maybe we're getting a little carried away with these :)
+		Maybe we're getting a little carried away with these :).
 	-->
 	<template name="plus-operator" match="plus">
 		<common>+</common>
