[xsl] yet another namespace question (unwanted xmlns="")

["Birnbaum, David J" <djbpitt@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear XSL List,

> Move the  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; to the xsl:stylesheet
element. Currently
> you have it inside of a template so that it only applies to the elements
created in that template.

Thanks very much to Martin and Michael for the quick response and the
explanation. I now realize that I've been putting namespace declarations in
the wrong place all my life (well, all the life of the namespace spec,
anyway), thinking that because I want them to appear on the root element of my
result document  I should put them there in the stylesheet, instead of putting
them on the root element of the stylesheet itself and letting them get copied
to the root of the result. As a bonus, for the first time
exclude-result-prefixes now seems to do what I've always wanted it to do.

Best,

David
djbpitt@xxxxxxxx