Given the document

<a/>

howe do I transform it to:

<b xmlns:h='http://foo'/>

T:\ftemp>type mv1.xml
<a/>

T:\ftemp>xslt mv1.xml mv1.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><b xmlns:h="http://foo"/>
T:\ftemp>type mv1.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="a">
  <b xmlns:h='http://foo'/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>

and given

<a xmlns:h='http://foo'/>

how do I transform it to:

<b>
 <ns prefix='h' uri='http://foo'/>
</b>

T:\ftemp>type mv2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<a xmlns:h='http://foo'/>
T:\ftemp>xslt mv2.xml mv2.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><b><ns prefix="h" uri="http://foo"/></b>
T:\ftemp>type mv2.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="a">
  <b>
    <xsl:for-each select="namespace::*[name(.)!='xml']">
      <ns prefix="{name(.)}" uri="{.}"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </b>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>

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