Obviously the way you run such a stylesheet depends on the calling API. In
Saxon 7.9 you can do

java -jar saxon7.jar -it main style.xsl

and it runs the stylesheet by calling the template named "main", with no
context node.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 April 2004 11:22
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] centralised alphabetical order ... 
> 
> Mike Kay said,
>     In 2.0 you can start the transformation at a named 
>     template, which means
>     there doesn't need to be a source document.
> 
> Could anyone expand on this?
> I've often wondered if there was a tidy way to run
> a stylesheet which didn't really need an input document.
> 
> TIA DaveP
> 
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