I want to match a root Element “FOO” and perform the transformation (add a version attribute) to it leaving the rest as it is. The Transformation I have so far looks like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://schemas.foo.com/fooNameSpace">

<xsl:template match="//FOO">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@version">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <FOO>
         <xsl:attribute name="version">1</xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
        </FOO>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

However this does not perform any transformation. It doesn't even detect the element. So I need to do add the namespace in order to make it work:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fd="http://schemas.foo.com/fooNameSpace">

 <xsl:template match="//fd:FOO">
 …

But this attaches a namespace attribute to the FOO element as well as other elements:

<FOO xmlns:fd="http://schemas.foo.com/fooNameSpace" version="1" id="fooid">
<BAR xmlns="http://schemas.foo.com/fooNameSpace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

• Is there a way to say that the element is using the default namespace?
• Can we match and add elements in the default name space?

Here is the original XML:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <FOO xmlns="http://schemas.foo.com/fooNameSpace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <BAR>
        <Attribute name="HEIGHT">2067</Attribute>
      </BAR>
  </FOO>