Hi, thanks for the reply. This is the code:

-----XSL------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
  <xsl:template match="/">
       <xsl:element name="namespaces">
              <xsl:variable name="ns" select="/xbrli:xbrl/namespace::*"/>
              <xsl:copy-of select="$ns"/>
       </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--------------------------


-------XML------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xbrli:xbrl xmlns:xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance"
xmlns:link="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/linkbase" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.
org/1999/xlink"  xmlns:iso4217="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
</xbrli:xbrl>
-------------------------


-------OUTPUT when I apply XSL to XML------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<namespaces iso4217="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217" link="http://www.xbrl.
org/2003/linkbase" xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance"
xlink="http://www.
w3.org/1999/xlink" xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
xsi="http://www.
w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
----------------------------------------


It writes the namespaces in the output but the problem is that these
namespaces
dont have  xmlns: before the namespace prefix. I want these namespaces
exactly
the same as in the XML.

Thank you




Michael Kay  (08/11/2006  19:02):
>
>If the element name, the namespace prefix, and the namespace URI are all
>known to you at the time you write the stylesheet, then all you need to do
>is to use a literal result element:
>
><myElement xmlns:iso4217="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217">
>  ....
></myElement>
>
>If any of these are not known in advance, then you have to use the technique
>you refer to, of copying a namespace node from another document. You've
>clearly misunderstood how this technique works, but it would be useful to
>see your code so that we can see which part of it you didn't understand.
>
>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>
>>
>> Im trying to create a XML document from another using XSLT.
>> The problem comes when I try to add a namespace to the result
>> (e.g. xmlns:iso4217="http://www.
>> xbrl.org/2003/iso4217"). I have read in post http://www.stylusstudio.
>> com/xsllist/200504/post00350.html that it is not possible to
>> add a namespace with a xsl:attribute, so I tried to use
>> xsl:copy-of with the axe "namespace".
>> This doesnt work fine since it does not add "xmlns:" to the
>> namespace and if I try to add "xmlns:" by hand it does not
>> work because it stops from being an attribute. What can I do?
>>
>> Thanks in advance