This sounds like you are trying to process a stylesheet without having loaded an XML document first. Please could you supply the smallest piece of code and sample XML and XSLT files that give this error - I'm pretty sure the code you have above wouldn't do this because it XML::DOM's createDocumentFragment() is only used when certain XSLT directives need to insert generated elements into the outout document.

BTW don't bother following up the cpanforum posting, I'm not going to respond in both places.

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