> My question is: Why the "xmlna:xsi......." was
> inserted in the element x here?

The scope of a namespace declaration is all descendent elements so your
source file had a namespace node representing the schema instance
namespace on all elements. When you copy a node, you copy its namespaces
as well.



David

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