Hi

I noticed that the namespace attribute of
xsl:element gets ignored as long as there
isn't at least one additional
namespace-declaration and a
xsl:namespace-alias in use.
The following code doesn't produce the
desired result:
{xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"}
  {xsl:template match="/"}
    {xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet"
                 namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"}
      {xsl:attribute name="version"}1.0{/xsl:attribute}
    {/xsl:element}
  {/xsl:template}
{/xsl:stylesheet}

Only adding an additional namespace-declaration
AND the use of xsl:namespace-alias outputs
the correct result:
{xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:gen="http://www.ipt.ch/xslt/generator"}
  {xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="gen" result-prefix="xsl"/}
  {xsl:template match="/"}
    {xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet"
                 namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"}
      {xsl:attribute name="version"}1.0{/xsl:attribute}
    {/xsl:element}
  {/xsl:template}
{/xsl:stylesheet}

I know, that I could use {gen:stylesheet...
and let xsl:namespace-alias do the rest for me.
Nevertheless {xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet" namespace="...
should do it also.

Respectfully,
Rudolf