Aha. I was going by the examples on page 100/109 1st/2nd edition.

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> Michael Kay
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> Subject: RE:  Embedded Stylesheets
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> 
> > Mike,
> > Using this xml in a file emb.xml
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="#style1"?>
> > <books>
> > <book>some book</book>
> >
> >   <xsl:stylesheet id="style1"
> >     version="1.0"
> >     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >     <xsl:template match="book">
> >       <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >     </xsl:template>
> >     <xsl:template match="xsl:stylesheet"/>
> >   </xsl:stylesheet>
> > </books>
> > And this command line with saxon 6.4.3
> > C:\temp>saxon -a emb.xml
> > Gives me
> > Transformation failed: Stylesheet is empty or absent
> > Changing type="text/xml" to type="text/xsl" makes no difference.
> 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> You haven't defined the "id" attribute of xsl:stylesheet to 
> be of type "ID".
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
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