What happens about the presence of the top-level element in XSLT?

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* The top-level elements don't have any effect on the behaviour of XSLT elements.

* The functions that are defined with it also don't have any affect in the document.

* The top-level elements are not permitted to be used by specifying the xsl:apply templates.

* XSLT process is provided to ignore the top-level elements and ignore some of it if an error occurs.

* XSLT top-element element doesn't recognize the namespace URI and can be provided using other sources.