Hi, use exclude-result-prefixes. Example: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=4888 Stefan
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Matthew L. Avizinis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Do 10.07.2003 09:30 An: Xalan users Cc: Betreff: Svg transformations Hello Xalanites, I am curious: when I run a simply transform to copy an SVG document, Xalan seems to add some extra attributes to the <svg> element as follows original: <svg width="137mm" height="68mm" viewBox="0 0 137 68"> after transform: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="137mm" height="68mm" viewBox="0 0 137 68" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.0" contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" contentStyleType="text/css"> if this is actually what is happening and I'm not missing something obvious, how can I tell Xalan not to do this? thanks for help, Matthew L. Avizinis Gleim Publications, Inc.