• Output document should be a well formed XML document
• Only required to be a well formed external general parsed entity:

<p>A paragraph</p><p>A second paragraph</p>

• This is valid output but Saxon gives a warning.
• Parameter values for XML output:

  omit-xml-declaration

  If value is no, an XML declaration will be added to the output. No XML declaration if value is yes.

  version

  Version of XML generated, should be 1.0, the default value.

  indent

  If value is yes, the XML output may be indented by the XSLT processor.

  encoding

  Defines preferred encoding for the output. Possible values are UTF-8 and UTF-16.