default namespace and the namespace attribute

Joshua, Gareth, thanks for your help!

I've looked at the relevant section of Mike Kay's (excellent) book (page 211
in the second edition), and I haven't been able to solve my main problem.
My stylesheet does not bind the default namespace to a uri, but the element
created by the

<xsl:element name="content">
    ....
</xsl:element>

ends up (in the result document) in the namespace bound to "uri:foo".

Adding the attribute namespace="uri:bar" to <xsl:element> causes the
<content> element in the result document to be in the "uri:bar" namespace,
but if I use namespace="", I get exactly the same result document as if I
exclude the namespace attribute.

I'm afraid I'm missing something simple here -- can someone help?

Once again, I'm using Xalan 1.2.

Thanks,

David

---------------------Source:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<top xmlns="uri:foo">
    <next name="bar"/>
    <next name="baz"/>
</top>

---------------------Transform:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:po="uri:foo"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="po:next">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="po:top">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:element name="content">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

--------------------Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<top xmlns="uri:foo">
    <content xmlns:po="uri:foo">
        <next>bar</next>
        <next>baz</next>
    </content>
</top>

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