Martin, you're a genius! Thanks!

It was hiding on page 390 of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 4th Edition, but
somehow I could not find it ;-)

Thanks again,
Jacobus

> With XSLT 2.0 there is
>  xsl:namespace
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#creating-namespace-nodes to create namespace
> nodes so perhaps you don't need that code you have.