hi all,



I have a question related to the copy-of function in xslt 2.0:



I would like to deep copy a piece of my source XML to a new XML file, 
without declaring all Namespaces of my source XML in my copied excerpt.



I know, I can make use of the xsl:copy-of function with the copy-namespaces 
attribute set to 'no'. Then, my targetnamespace is indeed copied, and other 
Namespace declarations of my source XML document (such as the foo NS) are 
omitted. However, I still would like to keep the xmlns:xsi Namespace 
declaration in the copied excerpt (as this would make the latter 
self-contained).



Does anyone knows how to do this? I provide an illustrative example below.



Many thanks in advance
chris


source XML:
----------

<foo:wrapper xmlns:foo="http://foo" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<!-- start excerpt to be copied -->

 <bar:excerpt xmlns:bar="http://bar" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >

   <bar:subject>blablabla</bar:subject>

   <bar:subject>blablabla</bar:subject>

   <dc:author xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >blablabla</dc:author>

 </bar:excerpt>

<!-- end excerpt to be copied -->

</foo:wrapper>



output XML:
----------

<bla:container xmlns:bla="http://bla" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<!-- start copied excerpt -->

 <bar:excerpt xmlns:bar="http://bar" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >

   <bar:subject>blablabla</bar:subject>

   <bar:subject>blablabla</bar:subject>

   <dc:author xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"   
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >blablabla</dc:author>

   </bar:excerpt>

<!-- end copied excerpt -->

</bla:container>



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