Re: Why does using the XSL namespace default namespace

<stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   version="1.0">

<!-- plus a little magic here to tell the xslt processor that the
       "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" namespace should map to the null
       namespace -->
<output method="html"/>

<template match="/">
   <html:html>
       <html:head><html:title>My Title</html:title></html:head>
       <html:body>My Body (lies over the sea...)</html:body>
   </html:html>
</template>
</stylesheet>

<namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="html" result-prefix="#none"/>
seemed like the obvious way to achieve the desired result.

I asked my original question largely because it seemed like a deficiency
in the standard.  It's simply something that I SHOULD be able to do!