You say "When I copy it ...", but you aren't copying it, you are creating a
new element that happens to have the same local name as the original. Use
<xsl:copy> instead, and all the namespace nodes will be copied
automatically.

Alternatively, use <xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*"/>.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hofman, Peter [mailto:peter.hofman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 September 2006 12:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Namespace missing after transform
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have difficulties getting all necessary namespaces in the 
> output while performing XML to XML transformation.
> 
> The source document contains typed elements like this:
> 
> <elem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
>           xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
>           xsi:type="xs:short">30</elem>
> 
> When I copy it using the following xsl template the xmlns:xs 
> reference is missing.
> 
> Template:
> 
> <xsl:template match="elem">
> 	<xsl:element name="elem">
> 		<xsl:attribute name="xsi:type"
> 			xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> 	
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@xsi:type"/>
> 		</xsl:attribute>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 	</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template> 
> 
> Result:
> 
> <elem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
>           xsi:type="xs:short">30</elem>
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> Additional information:
> XSL version: 1.0
> XSLT processor: not sure, I think it is SAX based. Anyway, 
> problem also occurs with msxsl.exe (version 4.0).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Peter Hofman
> 
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