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XSL Stylesheets Are XML Documents
By default, they all begin with the XML declaration:

XSL Stylesheets Are Self-Declarative
All XSL stylesheets declare themselves to be stylesheets; all XSL tags utilize the concept 
of namespaces described in 
Chapter 3
, whereby every tag is preceded by the 
namespace declaration, xsl:. When creating an XSL stylesheet, generally, the first line 
that follows the XML declaration is the stylesheet declaration that includes the XSL 
namespace declaration:

Remember, that because this is an XML document, the xsl:stylesheet tag must be closed 
at the end of the document. This means that the last line of your stylesheet generally is 
as follows: 

We are big believers in the inductive method of learning as opposed to the deductive 
method of learning. We feel it is easier to learn by looking at what someone has done and 
then experimenting with it yourself. Therefore, throughout the rest of this chapter, we go 
through example applications of the XSL syntax. We close the chapter with a reference 
section on the important XSL tags available for you to use.

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