>Adding xsi-related attributes ensured proper validation of the document
>by my Ant task...
>The problem I have is that since I added these attributes (/ namespace
>declaration), all elements of my source document which are copied as-is
>to the generated build.xml files now include an extraneous
>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" declarations...
Taken alone, that says you have attributes (not elements) in the xsi
namespace, and you're copying them. Thus, you still have nodes that need
the xmlns:xsi declaration to qualify their names. Did you want to copy
those attributes or drop them?
.................David Marston