| In This Chapter XML uses namespaces to distinguish a set of element names from another group . It does so by associating a namespace identifier (or prefix) with a URI. By this time, using the xsl: prefix in your stylesheets to designate the http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform namespace is probably second nature for you. Thats the basic concept of a namespace. When your source and result documents use the default namespace, you can ignore namespaces altogether during your transformations. However, XSLT also allows you to add namespaces to your result document or carry them over from the source document. In this chapter, I talk about how you can do this by using XSLT. |