Getting empty namespace (xmlns="") in output of XSLT

Question

Hi,
I am trying to copy data from an input XML to output using XSLT in ESB 10.1.3.4. But empty namespaces are getting added to some tags.
Input:
<Root>
<Node>
<Parent1>
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent1>
<Parent2>
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent2>
</Node>
</Root>
Expected Output:
<NewNode xmlns="http://www.somenamespace.com">
<Parent1>
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent1>
<Parent2>
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent2>
</NewNode>
Actual Output:
<NewNode xmlns="http://www.somenamespace.com">
<Parent1 xmlns="">
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent1>
<Parent2 xmlns="">
<Child1>
<Child2>
<Child3>
</Parent2>
</NewNode>
Below is the XSL being used:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.somenamespace.com"
>
<xsl:template match="/">
<NewNode>
<xsl:copy-of select="/Root/Node/*"/>
</NewNode>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
How can the empty namespaces at Parent Node be removed/avoided?
Thanks.

Answer 1

just to elborate a bit:
xml nodes' namespaces are actually stored at each node level (however, when displaying they can be displayed aggregated at the top most possible node level to improve readability)
copy-of doesnot change the namespace when copying nodes from source to target.
In this case you need to copy, changing the name space - so if you use for-each and copy tags to copy the Parentn and Childn nodes, you would get the result xml with the appropriate namespaces.
Regards,
Shanmu.