Namespace attribute passed to root element

["Gene Oswald" <goswald at everybook dot net>]

Having a problem!

Here's my stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
               xmlns:go="http:/go"
               version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="whatever">
  <foo>
     ...
  </foo>
</xsl:template>

The XML result document looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo xmlns:go="http:/go">
  ...
</foo>

Why is this namespace attribute automatically passed to the root element of
my result document? How can I stop this from happening? The input document
requires this namespace, but the prefix is not used in the output document,
and the foo element does not have a xmlns:go attribute, so the parse fails.

I'm using xalan 1.0.1

Thanks,
Gene Oswald
e-Commerce Developer
Everybook, Inc.
(717) 703-1010 x117


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