> However the included file is also included from a second XSLT file with 
> contains no existing namespace references. If I add  
> xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" to <help> this renders as <help 
> xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"/> - I do not want the attribute to appear 
> in the second file.

That means that your two uses need to generate two completely different
elements: help in the RSS namespace in one case (are you really sure you
want that) and <help/> in no namespace in the other case.

To XSLT this is the same as saying you want to generate <A/> in one case
and <B/> in the other: you can't use the same literal result element to
generate elements with two different names.

You can use

<xsl:element name="help" namespace="{$namespace-to-use}"/>

and pass in the parameter $namespace-to-use set to the RSS namespace in
one case and "" in the other.

David




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