[xsl] Namespaces in output

I am processing html exported from InDesign documents. As such, Every html
document comes with the standard doctype and namespace declarations:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

In the past, I have skirted the namespace tangle by manually removing the
doctype and replacing <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlb> with an
element name that the Oxygen xslt engine would not quibble about, such as
<mybook>. Since I have too many documents to transform, I have left the
doctype and html/namespace in place and modified the stylesheet namespace
declarations like this:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
    version="3.0"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
    xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
    xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map";
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
    xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/";
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs map #default saxon">


Well and good. I can address the html elements directly in my stylesheet.
However, the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml appears in the root level
element of all output documents:

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="apE">
    <p class="subhead_ap_topic">2.2 Yada Yada</p>
    <p class="subhead_ap_h2">Yuda</p>
    <p class="body_first">NNNN</p>
    <p class="subhead_ap_h4">MMMM</p>
    <p class="body_text">PPPP</p>
</div>

When I remove the namespace at the root level using <xsl:element
name=bdivb namespace="">, the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace
appears on all child elements:

<div class="apE">
    <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="subhead_ap_topic">2.2 Yada
Yada</p>
    <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="subhead_ap_h2">Yuda</p>
    <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="body_first">NNNN</p>
    <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="subhead_ap_h4">MMMM</p>
    <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="body_text">PPPP</p>
</div>

My question: Is it possible to remove all namespaces from my result
documentsbshort of selecting * and rebuilding all elements using
<xsl:element namespace=bb>? These namespace declarations donbt hamper
the display of the resulting documents. However, text is text and the extra
load, over pages and pages of such output canbt but add time to rendering
pages. Of course, having one namespace declaration at the root level is
preferable to having all child elements carrying a ns.

Any help in this would be appreciated.

Terry

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