I'm applying a transform to SVG documents, to make them validate against the SVG RNG schema. I have everything working EXCEPT the name spaces on the SVG element itself. These SVG documents where edited in Adobe Illistrator, and the original SVG element is: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:a=" http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/" xmlns:graph=" http://ns.adobe.com/Graphs/1.0/" xmlns:i=" http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/" xmlns:x=" http://ns.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/" xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> and what I want is: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> The stylesheet starts: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl" xmlns:i="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/" xmlns:a="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/" xmlns:graph="http://ns.adobe.com/Graphs/1.0/" xmlns:x="http://ns.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/" exclude-result-prefixes="xs xd a x graph" xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="2.0"> My understanding is that 'exclude-result-prefixes="xs xd a x graph"' should not copy over the namespaces identified, but a, x, and graph are still there in the output. My main template is below, and it keeps the namespace & extensions off of the child elements of SVG, just not the SVG node itself. <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test=". = //i:pgf"/> <!-- This is the BLOB --> <xsl:when test=". = //@i:*" /> <!-- These three are all of the Adobe extensions --> <xsl:when test=". = //metadata"/> <xsl:when test=". = //foreignObject"/> <xsl:when test=". = //switch"> <!-- We do not want the switch elements, just their text nodes. --> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> Any ideas?