XSLT: How do I trigger a template when there is no input file?

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I'm creating a template which produces output based on a single string, passed via parameter, and does not use an input XML document. xsltproc seems to happily run with a single parameter specifying the stylesheet, but I don't see a way to trigger a template without an input file (no parameter to xsltproc to run a named template, for example).

I'd like to be able to run:

xsltproc --stringparam bar baz foo.xsl

But I'm currently having to run, with the "main" template matching "/":

echo '<xml/>' | xsltproc --stringparam bar baz foo.xsl -

How can I get this to work? I'm sure I've seen other templates in the past which were meant to be run without an input document, but I don't remember how they worked or where to find them again. :-)

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