the issue is that I don't know what namespace prefix might have been used in 
the source document. in the output document I want to use the same namespace 
I'm using in the stylesheet

I did investigate <xsl:namespace-alias> but I can't see how this would help.


"Joe Kesselman" <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote in message 
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> Andy Fish wrote:
>> I have used something similar to this technique. unfortunately yours 
>> creates a namespace node on the copied node of the result tree and I 
>> wanted to just use the prefix.
>
> XSLT is namespace-aware. When you copy a node, you copy it with its 
> namespace context, because that's part of the meaning of the node.
>
> If you really want to break namespace-aware behavior, then yes, 
> hand-constructing a new node is one solution. But I strongly suspect that 
> what you're really looking for is
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#element-namespace-alias
>
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