Applying templates to XML with namespace

Question

I have the following XML data:

<main xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <section>
        <value>s1</value>
    </section>
    <section>
        <value>s2</value>
    </section>
</main>

and XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
    <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <page>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="/main/section" />
        </page>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="section">
        <test section="{value}" />
    </xsl:template>        
</xsl:stylesheet>

The output I'm expecting is the following:

<page>
    <test section="s1" />
    <test section="s2" />
</page>

But I'm getting:

<page xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>

I've tested this using this online tool. Obviously I'm doing something wrong, but it's late and I can't wrap my head around this. Could you suggest a way for me to fix this problem?

To be a bit more precise: I cannot name the namespace of the XML data, therefore the answer to the suggested duplicate does not solve this problem.

"*I cannot name the namespace of the XML data,*" What do you mean by that? The namespace URI is `"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"` and the prefix can be anything you like. — michael.hor257k, Aug 28 '16 at 20:08
@michael.hor257k I mean that I can't add a namespace prefix to the XML. This is because I'm using a DOMDocument object in JavaScript. — Michaël van de Weerd, Aug 28 '16 at 20:24
"*I can't add a namespace prefix to the XML.*" You're not supposed to modify the XML in any way; it's all done in the XSLT stylesheet. Read more carefully. — michael.hor257k, Aug 28 '16 at 20:45
@michael.hor257k You're totally right, should've paid better attention. Thank you! — Michaël van de Weerd, Aug 29 '16 at 08:28

Applying templates to XML with namespace

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