How to ignore namespaces during xsl translation time

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()[not(self::*)]">
  <xsl:copy/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
  </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied to the provided XML document:

<books xmlns="http://www.books.com/SRK">
    <name>English</name>
</books>

produces the wanted, correct result:

<books>
   <name>English</name>
</books>

Its working only if i include the above templates if i add some other templates other than the above one then the translation is not at all working .None of the template getting executed.

Probably you are missing the declaration of the namespace for the book element. Example:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:b="http://www.books.com/SRK"
    exclude-result-prefixes="b">

    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

        <!-- @dimitre's answer templates -->

    <xsl:template match="b:name">
          <!-- your template for name -->
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Moreover, make sure to use local-name() function to get the name of an element without the related namespace.

Example

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:b="http://www.books.com/SRK"
    exclude-result-prefixes="b">
    <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>


    <xsl:template match="b:input">
        <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="b:name"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="b:name">
        <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:element>
            <lhs>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::b:lhs/b:evaluate"/>
            </lhs>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="b:evaluate">
        Something to evaluate...    
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

gets:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<input>