The xmlns attribute sets the default namespace. XSLT is namespace-sensitive; to match namespace-qualified elements and attributes you must match the namespaces as well (which means using prefixes in your XSLT even though you used the default in the instance document, since XSLT 1.0 has no ability to specify a default namespace for its match/select patterns).
______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish ( http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)