[xsl] Avoid xmlns (namespace)

["J. S. Rawat" <jrawat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi List,
I want to avoid xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; as an attribute 
of element "item" (<itemref xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
idref="ch1" linear="yes"/>) from the output xml even after my 
exclusion entry in the top (#default). If I remove xmlns from 
xsl:stylesheet, I am getting xmlns="".

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
	      exclude-result-prefixes="#default xsl" version="2.0">

<xsl:variable name="metafile" select="document('meta.txt')"/>

<xsl:for-each select="$metafile/items/file">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="manifest"/>
 </xsl:for-each>

<xsl:template match="file" mode="manifest">
 <item id="{title/@id}" href="{@id}" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
</xsl:template>

Any tip in this direction will be highly appriciable!!!

Thanks
...JSR