Java Transform XSL not appending namespaces

Question

Hello !
I have a string
<dataroot><xiMsgHeader><SeqID>2</SeqID><SequenceNo>LST000000000000001</SequenceNo>...</xiMsgHeader></dataroot>
and style sheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="dataroot">
     <STANDARDMESSAGE xmlns="http://abc.com/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="xiMsgHeader"/>     
</STANDARDMESSAGE>     
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="xiMsgHeader">
     <STANDARDMESSAGEHEADER xmlns="http://abc.com/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
          <SEQUENCENUMBER><xsl:value-of select="SequenceNo"/></SEQUENCENUMBER>
          <CORRELATIONID><xsl:value-of select="SequenceName"/></CORRELATIONID>
          <SYSTEM><xsl:value-of select="SystemName"/></SYSTEM>
          <RETRANSMIT><xsl:value-of select="ReTrans"/></RETRANSMIT>
     </STANDARDMESSAGEHEADER>
     <STANDARDMESSAGEBODY xmlns="http://abc.com/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
          <DT_ACCOUNT_PAYABLE xmlns="http://abc.com/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
               <xsl:apply-templates select="xiMsgDocHeader[1]"/>
          </DT_ACCOUNT_PAYABLE>
     </STANDARDMESSAGEBODY>
</xsl:template>
and then I run java tranform provided with jdk1.4.2.10
now you can see that stylesheet says that for
<dataroot> create a tag <STANDARDMESSAGE xmlns="abc.com/sap/xi/R3F!/lst/ap">
and for
<xiMsgHeader> create a tag <STANDARDMESSAGEHEADER xmlns="http://abc.com/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
but the result that I get is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<STANDARDMESSAGE xmlns="http://awb.com.au/sap/xi/R3FI/lst/ap">
<STANDARDMESSAGEHEADER>
<SEQUENCENUMBER>LST000000000000001</SEQUENCENUMBER>
</STANDARDMESSAGEHEADER>
</STANDARDHEADER>
so my question is that why tranform is writing xmlns vales of child tag of main tag.
Can anybody suggest me what is going wrong.

Answer 1

Looks okay to me. I suppose you don't know that the namespace declared on an element also applies to all that element's children.