Mike Brown writes

> The default namespace, as declared by the xmlns attribute, is just for the
> assignment of a namespace to result tree elements that aren't expressed in
> the stylesheet with qualifiers (prefixes).

Not necessarily result tree elements, If you get fed up of sticking xsl:
in front of everything, you can do this:

<stylesheet 
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
  >

and then just use

<template match=

etc.

Of course you then need to explicitly namespace any literal result
elements, or don't use literals, and use <element name="foo"> instead.


> The gist is: namespace declarations in the stylesheet have nothing to do
> with elements in the source tree.

Not really `nothing'. If you want to access elements in the source tree
which have a particular namespace associated, you have to declare that
namespace in the stylesheet, to associate the namespace with a prefix.
Don't you?

David


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