@xmlns retrieving value of

Hi I'm hoping somebody might have some insight.

Saxon 8
XSLT 2

Here is a sample piece of xml to help get the idea of what I'm trying to achieve.

<root>
...
     <p xmlns:anElem="http://www.namespace.com/namespaces/anElem">this is a test
to retrieve the namespace uri and name.</p>
...
</root>

I've been trying to get the namespace and uri from the @xmlns with no success. I
would like to reuse both the ns and uri when I transform the p into something like
<newDoc>
...
<anElem:para xmlns="http://www.namespace.com/namespaces/anElem">this is a test
to retrieve the namespace uri and name.</anElem:para>
...
</newDoc>

I've used

namespace-uri()
name()
namespace-uri-for-prefix()
namespace-uri-from-QName()

I'm pretty sure the last 2 were being used inappropriately

Any ideas or solution would be appreciated.

Thanks

Marijan Madunic