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Specifies the start of a stylesheet.
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http:///www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" > stylesheet_body </xsl:stylesheet>
A stylesheet must specify the xsl:stylesheet element unless it contains only a literal result element as the root element. The xsl:transform instruction is a synonym for xsl:stylesheet.
xsl:stylesheet
xsl:transform
All XSLT elements must appear between the <xsl:stylesheet> and </xsl:stylesheet> tags. An element that is a child of an xsl:stylesheet element is a top-level element.
<xsl:stylesheet>
</xsl:stylesheet>