XSLT 1.0 doesn't give you a guaranteed way to get a particular prefix in the output but most processors will retain the prefix you use in the name attribute if possible, e.g.

<xsl:element name="icns:{local-name()}" namespace="{.....}">

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This still does not work is there a way in xslt 2.0 to acheive the expected results ?

Please don't say "it doesn't work" -that's useless information. Tell us exactly what you did and exactly how it failed, and then we can tell you what you did wrong.

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When i use
<xsl:element name="icns:{local-name()}" namespace="urn:Test">

the resulting xml is prefixed with icns in every node.
<icns:Print_Data xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:icns="urn:Test"
<icns:....></icns:....>
</icns:Print_Data>

i'm using built in Altova XML spy xsl parser

>When i use
> <xsl:element name="icns:{local-name()}" namespace="urn:Test">

>the resulting xml is prefixed with icns in every node.

So it does work - when you said it doesn't work, you were misleading us.

If you only want some nodes to use this prefix, then only use this construct on those nodes.

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Sorry for not being very clear.

Here's my input xml
<Print_Data xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"xmlns:icns="urn:NewBusiness_ATV"</Print_Data>

here's the xsl i'm using
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"xmlns:icns="urn:NewBusiness_ATV">

<xsl:template match="/">
<soapenv:Envelope>
<soapenv:Header>
<icns:IplusHeader>
<icns:freeFormatText>
Sample Text
</icns:freeFormatText>
</icns:IplusHeader>
</soapenv:Header>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@* | text() | comment() | processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{name()}" namespace="urn:TEST">
<xsl:copy-of select="document('')/xsl:stylesheet/namespace::*[local-name() = 'icns']"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*[not(local-name() = 'icns')]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

I'm expecting the following result xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Header>
<icns:IplusHeader xmlns:icns="urn:TEST">
<icns:freeFormatText>
Sample Text
</icns:freeFormatText>
</icns:IplusHeader>
</soapenv:Header>
</soapenv:Envelope>

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