Force xslt to generate the "xml" domain name

Question

I need xslt version 2 to generate the domain name for the "xml" attribute prefix (xml:lang="en-us") at either at the record or element level:

xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"

I tried using both xsl:namespace and using xsl:attribute ... namespace=

Neither worked for me - any suggestions would be terrific Thanks David

Answer 1

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-decl "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. It MAY, but need not, be declared, and MUST NOT be bound to any other namespace name." so while you can certainly use that namespace on a literal result element or output it with xsl:namespace I think there is no guarantee that the serializer outputs it as omitting it does not change the semantics of the XML.