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I've got some XML which declares a namespace which is only used for attributes, like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <a xmlns:x="http://tempuri.com"> <c x:att="true"/> <d>hello</d> </a> I want to use XSL to create a copy of selected nodes and their values - getting rid of the attributes. So my desired output is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <c /> <d>hello</d> I've got some XSL that almost does this, but I can't seem to stop it putting the namespace declaration in the top level element of the output. My XSL is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="/a/b"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> The first element of the output is instead of . I've tried declaring the namespace in the XSL and putting the prefix in the exclude-result-prefixes list, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. What am I doing wrong? UPDATE: I've found that by declaring the namespace in the XSL and using the extension-element-prefixes attribute works, but this doesn't seem right! I guess I could use this, but I'd like to know why the exclude-result-prefixes doesn't work! UPDATE: Actually, it seems this extension-element-prefixes solution only works with XMLSpy's built-in XSLT engine, not with MSXML.

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