Re: Target Namespace in XML breaks XSL transform

When I specify a target namespace for the root element in my XSL document,

e.g. <Events xmlns="urn:cde.berkeley.edu:babl:events:1.00"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:cde.berkeley.edu:babl:events:1.00 UCBEvents.xsd">

it appears that I then need to use a namespace prefix for every element from
that document referenced in my XSL transform.

So I can't do this:
<xsl:value-of select="Events/View/FormatCalendar/ShortName"/>

But instead have to do this:
<xsl:value-of select="ev:Events/ev:View/ev:FormatCalendar/ev:ShortName"/>

This is a huge stylesheet and there are three different stylesheets I'd have
to modify, so to do this MANY changes will have to be made.

I need the
target namespace in my XML document if I want to validate it. Is there any
way around modifying all my XSLs?

<?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="text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*">
  <xsl:attribute name="{local-name(.)}">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

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