RE: [xsl] I need to make sure that all namespace declarations get output to a particular element, not the document element

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is not strictly necessary. Not sure if the processor is 
> allowed to, I think it is, to cleanup the namespaces the way 
> it likes and instead put the namespace decl. to 
> 'test:other-ns-now' element. 

At XSLT 1.0 the serializer (*not* the XSLT processor) has a great deal of
latitude to do add any namespaces it wants to.
> 
> I am a bit puzzled that you need such control over your 
> namespaces in the output. 

Me too.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/