>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Bryant <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Jay> I'm sure you get the gist of it, though: Use the stylesheet
    Jay> file as the source file of your transformation.

That is definitely not best - it is inefficient, and is unnatural.

The best thing to do is to change the template from reading match="/"
to read name="initial" (or some other name), and then invoke it with
Saxon's -it initial option.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire