Using not outermost stylesheet

The stylesheet root — xsl:stylesheet or its synonym xsl:transform — must be the outermost element of an XSLT document. A nested xsl:stylesheet or xsl:transform inside a template body is invalid and will be rejected by a conformant XSLT processor.

Incorrect:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    </xsl:stylesheet>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Correct:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>