cert21 wrote:
> My question was, what is the namespace of this root element: is it
> 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# because the
> root element has an rdf prefix
> 
> or is it  http://purl.org/rss/1.0/

The element is not in a namespace, nor does it have a namespace.

The *name* of the element has two parts: a namespace and a local part.

The *name* of the element has the namespace part
bhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#b and the local part bRDF.b

There are many namespace declarations in scope for this element.  Its
literal name, brdf:RDF,b is interpreted with respect to the in-scope
declarations.

(I submit that this is arguably on-topic for this mailing list, as much
XSLT confusion arises from interpretation of namespaces. (-: )

~Chris
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