On the other hand,  the stylesheet
element is not allowed to have arbitrary elements as direct children, so
that route won't work.

In addition, the xsl:stylesheet element may contain any element not from the XSLT namespace, provided that the expanded-name of the element has a non-null namespace URI. [XSLT 2.2]

Cheers,
Wendell

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