[xsl] Problem involving xmlns namespace declaration in source xml

["Pankaj Bishnoi" <pankaj.bishnoi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All
          I am using Xalan for doing a simple transformation. My Source Xml
is::

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<persons
xmlns="http://www.w3schools.com";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3schools.com note.xsd">

<person>
  <full_name>Hege Refsnes</full_name>
  <child_name>Cecilie</child_name>
</person>
<person>
  <full_name>Tove Refsnes</full_name>
    <child_name>Hege</child_name>
    <child_name>Stale</child_name>
    <child_name>Jim</child_name>
    <child_name>Borge</child_name>
</person>
<person>
  <full_name>Stale Refsnes</full_name>
</person>
</persons>



and the xsl is ::::



<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.1" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java";
xmlns="http://www.w3schools.com"; xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings";
xmlns:redirect="org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect"
extension-element-prefixes="redirect">
     <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
indent="yes"/>
      <xsl:variable name="apos">'</xsl:variable>
     <xsl:template match="/">
          <persons>
               <xsl:apply-templates select="/persons/person"
mode="_persons_person_order1"></xsl:apply-templates>
          </persons>
     </xsl:template>
     <xsl:template match="/persons/person" mode="_persons_person_order1">
          <person>
               <full_name>
                    <xsl:value-of select="full_name"/>
               </full_name>
               <child_name>
                    <xsl:value-of select="child_name"/>
               </child_name>
          </person>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


When i transform then i do not get map values in corresponding target
elements. The reason for that is in the source file for the root element
persons i am having a namespace declaration as:::
xmlns="http://www.w3schools.com"; when i remove this namespace declaration
then the transfornation works fine. What is the problem that only this
namespace tag does not work.


Thanks for help in advance

Thanks
Pankaj