> I am having a small problem with prefixes.  I am trying to 
> build a soap
> envelope and am having trouble eliminating namespaces for 
> elements that
> include a prefix.
> 
> I have a very simple stylesheet seen below:
> 
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version = "1.0" xmlns:SOAP-ENV =
> "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope" exclude-result-prefixes =
> "SOAP-ENV">
> 	<xsl:template match = "/">
> 		<xsl:element name = "SOAP-ENV:Envelope">
> 			<xsl:element name = "SOAP-ENV:Body"/>
> 		</xsl:element>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

exclude-result-prefixes only affects literal result elements. Your
stylesheet doesn't contain any literal result elements, so it has no effect.
> 
> The current output is:
> 
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV =
> "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope">
> 	<SOAP-ENV:Body/>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> 
> I would like the output to be
> 
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> 	<SOAP-ENV:Body/>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> 

That is not a namespace-well-formed XML document, so it cannot be produced
using XSLT.

Michael Kay