one clarification/correction

literal result elements pick up namespace nodes from ancestors in the
stylesheet (as in the example I gave)

nodes from input documents copied with copy or copy-of get their
namespace nodes from ancestors in the input document.
But the result is the same, you often don't want them in the output.

David


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