> I require as final output an XML file without any use of 
> namespaces.  The input data does make use of namespaces, 
> although this is part of a multiple pass operation and I have 
> elements which don't use namespaces by this stage. I wish to 
> copy some of these elements without changing them

But you just said you did want to change them - you want to remove the
namespaces! xsl:copy-of can only create an exact copy. For anything
else, you need to do a recursive application of a template rule that
makes the necessary changes to each element.

To copy an element without copying its namespaces, you need to use
xsl:element name="local-name()".

XSLT 2.0 has an option copy-namespaces on xsl:copy-of which may do what
you want.

The exclude-result-prefixes only suppresses copying of namespaces from
the stylesheet, not from the source document.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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, and have 
> tried, for example
> 
> <xsl:template match="Attribute">
>    <xsl:copy-of select="current()"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> The template copies the elements as required, except that I 
> get spurious namespace declarations such as 
> "xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" in the output (as 
> attributes on the "Attribute" output element), even though 
> the xsl:stylesheet specifically excludes them (using 
> exclude-result-prefixes).  How do I get rid of them?  My 
> guess is that, since I'm trying to copy an element without a 
> namespace it is assuming that any could apply, but in this 
> case none do (the output uses a DTD).  I also get namespace 
> declarations from the input file, not mentioned by the style 
> sheet, and I wish to exclude these as well, without making 
> the stylesheet depend upon these.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tim Wilkins
> 
> 
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