Re: yet another namespace question (unwanted xmlns=""

Not a big deal at the moment, perhaps, but I would prefer not to have to suppress a namespace definition that appears to be irrelevant to the output separately, explicitly, and individually for every element I create in the svg namespace. Aside from the aesthetics, as the stylesheet grows beyond being a frustrating namespace exercise into something that generates useful output, there emerges a real development and maintenance cost. What I'd like to be able to do is include a declaration only once in the stylesheet, so that it will then apply automatically to exclude the xmlns="" where it isn't needed, that is, on elements in the svg namespace.

I've read, tinkered, and googled, but I seem to keep missing the solution. Since the default namespace isn't being used and the namespace of the literal result element is specified by a prefix, is there a graceful general (global) way to prevent the stylesheet from generating the superfluous xmlns="" output on what will eventually become more complex in-line svg?

	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/