namespace change, what am I missing here?

Hi,

I've got a stylesheet renamespace.xsl, that is intended to take an 
arbitrary XML file and change the namespace (no matter what it is) into 
an arbitrary new namespace. It's based on the FAQ. Both the location of 
the file and the new namespace are parameters. But when I run it 
through my script (it's all below) I get the namespace applied to all 
the child nodes but NOT the root node. Why not??
Here's what I did:

%%%%%%%% xsltproc -V
Using libxml 20506, libxslt 10030 and libexslt 720
xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20506, libxslt 10030 and libexslt 
720
libxslt 10030 was compiled against libxml 20506
libexslt 720 was compiled against libxml 20506

%%%%%%%% cat renamespace.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                >

  <xsl:param name="location"/>
  <xsl:param name="new_namespace"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:message>re_namespace'ing</xsl:message>
    <!--<wrapper>-->
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="$location != ''">
          <xsl:apply-templates select="document($location)/node()" 
mode="renamespace"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:apply-templates mode="renamespace"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    <!--</wrapper>-->
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*" mode="renamespace">
    <xsl:element
        name="{local-name()}"
        namespace="{$new_namespace}">
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates mode="renamespace"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

%%%%%%%% cat test.orig.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
        <channel>
                <title>Werblog</title>
                <link>http://werbach.com/blog/</link>

        </channel>
</rss>

%%%%%%%% xsltproc --stringparam "new_namespace" "foo" \
 renamespace.xsl test.orig.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss xmlns:ns2="foo" version="2.0">
        <ns2:channel>
                <ns2:title>Werblog</ns2:title>
                <ns2:link>http://werbach.com/blog/</ns2:link>

        </ns2:channel>
</rss>


****

I would expect to get this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ns2:rss xmlns:ns2="foo" version="2.0">
        <ns2:channel>
                <ns2:title>Werblog</ns2:title>
                <ns2:link>http://werbach.com/blog/</ns2:link>

        </ns2:channel>
</rss>


(i'm also not sure where the "ns2" is from but that doesn't matter to 
me.)
simon

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