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exclude-result-prefixes

   <source lang="xml">

File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <europe>

<scandinavia>
 <state>Finland</state>
 <state>Sweden</state>
 <state>Iceland</state>
 <state>Norway</state>
 <state>Denmark</state>
</scandinavia>

</europe> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:sc="http://www.wbex.ru/scand"
 xmlns:scand="http://www.wbex.ru/scandinavia"
 xmlns:nr="http://www.wbex.ru/scandinavia"
 exclude-result-prefixes="scand nr">
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
 <xsl:template match="europe">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="scandinavia" />
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="scandinavia">
   <sc:scandinavia>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="state">
       <xsl:sort />
     </xsl:apply-templates>
   </sc:scandinavia>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="state">
   <sc:country>
     <xsl:value-of select="." />
   </sc:country>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <sc:scandinavia xmlns:sc="http://www.wbex.ru/scand">

  <sc:country>Denmark</sc:country>
  <sc:country>Finland</sc:country>
  <sc:country>Iceland</sc:country>
  <sc:country>Norway</sc:country>
  <sc:country>Sweden</sc:country>

</sc:scandinavia></source>