Just wondering, if it is possible for a stylesheet to ignore the namespace provided in the source XML and just perform the translation.

An example of my source XML is

<RootNode xmlns="http://xmlns.myWork.com.au/V3">
    <BatchHeader ProductionData="Yes" TrainingMode="No">
        <ElementNode>JustTesting</ElementNode>
        <Identifier UniqueID="CBABatch-1122453"/>
    </BatchHeader>
</RootNode>

To illustrate a simple example, I want my stylesheet to process the above source XML and generate the following outcome

<RootNode>
    <BatchHeader ProductionData="Yes" TrainingMode="No">
        <ElementNode>JustTesting</ElementNode>
        <Identifier UniqueID="CBABatch-1122453"/>
    </BatchHeader>
</RootNode>

thanks

You can achieve this with a variant of the identity transform:

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

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference