>> To generate the xsl:stylesheet element in B.xsl, I have the
>> following excerpt in A.xsl:
>>
>> <xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet">
>> <xsl:namespace name="atom">http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom</xsl:namespace>
>> <xsl:attribute name="version">1.0</xsl:attribute>
>> ...
>> </xsl:element>
>
> You don't need to be that elaborate, just use namespace alias:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:xslo="dummy">
>
> <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xslo" result-prefix="xsl"/>
>
> <xsl:template ....
>    <xslo:stylesheet version="1.0"
>                     xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
>    .....
>    </xslo:stylesheet>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This uses a non-XSLT namespace in the template rule but the
> XSLT namespace in the result tree.

Thanks, Ken.  This solution worked flawlessly for me.

Stylistically, I prefer to use <xsl:element> to generate elements, but I can
definitely live with this solution.

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