> Going off slightly at a tangent, could I use the same trick to avoid having
> to type xsl: throughout my stylesheets?

yes

> It would seem to work if my output is plain text but not if the output is an
> xml document.

It should work in either case. (Of course of you are using the default
namespace for xsl you have to be careful when generating unprefixed
literal result elements.

> I've never seen any examples where the xsl: namespace prefix is not used,
> would it be considered bad form anyway?

No, it's bad form to attatch any special meaning to a namespace prefix
(including xsl:) therefore using <stylesheet xmlns="..." is perfectly
OK.

David


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