RE: Managing namespaces ... again

> Is there a way to suppres the output of a specific namespace 
> in the target?

exclude-result-prefixes will prevent a namespace being written to the result
tree when a literal result element is processed.

In XSLT 2.0, you can copy nodes from the source document suppressing all
unused namespaces using xsl:copy[-of] copy-namespaces="no". You can't do
this in 1.0, and you can't make it selective. In such cases the technique is
to do a modified identity transform of the form

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="{$new-namespace}">
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </
</

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