> From: Stephen Tredrea [mailto:stephen.tredrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> 
> Is there any way to stop a transformation putting the 
> namespace declarations into html tags?
> 
> For example, this XSL...
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>   >
> <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<h1>Hello world</h1>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> ...produces this html...
> 
> <h1 xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Hello world</h1>
> 

You can suppress specific namespace prefixes like this -

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  exclude-result-prefixes='dc'>

However, you might want to tell us a little more about what you want to
achieve here.  True html is not xml and does not support namespaces.  If
you want xhtml, you should be including a document type declaration that
says so, but then it won't be so easy to insert elements from the dc
namespace.

I speculate that you want to produce something that looks enough like
html to get by a browser, but isn't literally either html or xhtml.  Is
that right?

Cheers,

Tom P