We can't tell why you're getting the unwanted namespaces without seeing your
code. The main reasons for unwanted namespaces are either

(a) you copied them from the source document using xsl:copy or xsl:copy-of. In
XSLT 2.0+ you can use the copy-namespaces="no" attribute to prevent this

(b) you copied them from the stylesheet by using a literal result element
without specifying exclude-result-prefixes.

The desired output also looks odd because it has an XML declaration inside the
outermost element.

You can get the DOCTYPE declaration in the output by using `xsl:output` with
the doctype-system option

> On 7 Jun 2023, at 16:28, LEGAULT, PHILLIP plegault@xxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ibm splitting a large soap xml file into multiple files then running a
transformation on each file.
> Ibm left with:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ichicsr xmlns="urn:enterprise.soap.sforce.com
<http://enterprise.soap.sforce.com/>"
>          xmlns:sf="urn:sobject.enterprise.soap.sforce.com
<http://sobject.enterprise.soap.sforce.com/>"
>          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>"
>          lang="en">
> b&b&..
> b&b&b&
> </ichicsr>
>
> What I want to end up with is like:
> <xmlFile>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE ichicsr SYSTEM
"http://eudravigilance.ema.europa.eu/dtd/icsr21xml.dtd
<http://eudravigilance.ema.europa.eu/dtd/icsr21xml.dtd>">
>
> b&b&b&b&b&..
> b&b&b&b&..
>
>     </ichicsr>
> </xmlFile>
>
>
>
> Then
>
> Phil Legault
> RDx Platform Lead
>
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