> > <xsl:variable name="dummy">
> >   <xsl:element name="e" namespace="{@prefix}"/> </xsl:variable>
> > 
> > <xsl:copy select="xx:node-set($dummy)/*/namespace::*[.=@prefix]"/>
> > 
> > This creates a dummy element in the required namespace, and then 
> > copies the required namespace node to the result tree.
> 
> amazingly, this does not yield any change in the output 
> document.

Try:
<xsl:copy
select="xx:node-set($dummy)/*/namespace::*[.=current()/@prefix]"/>

My error.

MK

 I am 
> using Xalan (where the function is named nodeset as opposed to 
> node-set). The new namespace decl does not appear.
> 
> thanks,
> christian
> 
> 
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