Using XSLT to build XSLT stylesheets

[De...@mpower.com]

Hi everybody,
I'd like use Xalan to build stylesheets from XML input specs. I'm having a 
(trivial?) problem generating the root XSLT transform element in the 
output document. 

I want to output 

<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">
 .....
</xsl:transform>

using 

<xsl:element name="xsl:transform">
    <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:xsl">
        <xsl:text>http://wwww.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="version">
        <xsl:text>1.0</xsl:text>
    </xsl:attribute>
     ......
</xsl:element>

But I'm failing to generate the xmlns:xsl attribute in the output.  I'm 
quite sure its an issue with the namespace of the attribute name, but I 
have no solution.

Any assist appreciated.

Dean