> A coworker, using Microsoft's parser 
> simply uses:
> 
> <xsl:element name="MSHelp:Keyword">
>     <xsl:attribute name="index">K</xsl:attribute>
>     <xsl:attribute name="term">Foobar</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:element>
> 

That looks a complicated rather than simple, you could just go
<MSHelp:Keyword index="K" term="Foobar"/>
assuming MSHelp prefix is declared in your stylesheet.

> However for me (Linux and libxslt via xsltproc) there is only
> <Keyword> 
it comes out unprefixed?
The only reason I could see for your code not producing the attributes
if you have set xml:space somewhere so that you are generating a (white)
text node child of the mshelp:Keyword element. You can not add attribute
nodes once you have added a child.


David

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