suppress soap namespace?

I have a soap input document as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap-env:Envelope
xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap-env:Header/>
<soap-env:Body>
  <justiceXML>
  <documentDescriptor type="request" class="OTrackNameListRequest"/>
  <payload>
    <person>
      <personName>
        <firstName>MICHAEL</firstName>
        <lastName>MOLEN</lastName>
      </personName>
      <personDescription>
        <sex>Male</sex>
        <birthDate>1910-08-01</birthDate>
      </personDescription>
    </person>
  </payload>
</justiceXML>
</soap-env:Body>
</soap-env:Envelope>

I am trying get just the soap body elements out via XSLT, but I always get
the soap ns on the justiceXML element (the first body element).  My style
sheet is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
exclude-result-prefixes="soap-env">
<xsl:output method="xml" />
  <xsl:template match="justiceXML">
  <xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and my output is what I want but without the soap ns:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<justiceXML xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <documentDescriptor class="OTrackNameListRequest" type="request"/>
  <payload>
    <person>
      <personName>
      <firstName>MICHAEL</firstName>
      <lastName>MOLEN</lastName>
      </personName>
      <personDescription>
        <sex>Male</sex>
        <birthDate>1960-07-11</birthDate>
      </personDescription>
    </person>
  </payload>
</justiceXML>

Question:  is there a way to supress the soap namespace from the output?
Using  exclude-result-prefixes doesn't make any difference.



Paul Coleman
paul.coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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