namespace problem with DOM parsed stylesheets

Hello,

I have a proble in processing stylesheets that have been pre-parsed to 
DOM trees.
Specifically, think of an xslt portion such as:

1<xsl:stylesheet  xmlns:n = "uri:aNamespace" ...>
 ....
2   <xsl:template match="n:anElement">
       ....
3          <n:anotherElement>
                  ...
4           </n:anotherElement>
       ....
5   </xsl:template>
6 </xsl:stylesheet>

When this is parsed, the prefix information is lost in the DOM tree (or 
at least is not directly accessible - DOM-2).
When I try to apply this stylesheet (xalan), it complains that "n" is 
not associate to a namespace in line 2.
Of course processing of other elements as in line 3 is ok since the 
namespace resolution has been performed
already. It's the namespace prefixes withing attributes that cause the 
problem.
Is there any way to work arroun this? (e.g. specify the namespace 
separately or something?)...
...moreover, is there any way that I can customize that (maybe by 
preprocessing the stylesheet with
another stylesheet) that I can use normal stylesheets (such as the one 
above) without the need
to modify them?

Thanks in advance,
Mike.


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