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> Instead of using a literal result element, copy the original: > > <xsl:template match="soapenv:Body"> > <xsl:copy> > <xsl:attribute name="id">MsgBody</xsl:attribute> > ... > </xsl:copy> > ... > > This isn't guaranteed to preserve the prefix, but will in many XSLT > implementations. > In fact it is guaranteed under XSLT 2.0 Under 1.0 it's guaranteed that the copied element will have copies of all the original namespace bindings (prefix:uri pairs), so an implementation would have to be pretty perverse not to use the original prefix, except in the situation where there is more than one prefix bound to the same URI in the source document, in which case it might choose a different one. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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