Generic template question

Hello,

I am trying to create a generic freemarker template, used to be able  
to work with any model.

For example, it would be able to take an XML, as a model, like this:
<root>
<child1>content</child1>
</root>
and this as well:
<root>
<child1>
	<child2>content</child2>
</child1>
</root>

Now, I can get all nodes and text content (tags and content in those  
tags), like this:

<#ftl>

<#recurse doc>

<#macro @element>
	${.node.@@start_tag}
	<#if .node?children?size = 1>
		${r"${"}${.node.@@qname}${r"}"}
	</#if>
	<#if .node?children?size &gt; 0>
		<#recurse>
	</#if>
	${.node.@@end_tag}
</#macro>

<#macro @text>
</#macro>

This will effectively recurse through all tags and clean up the @text  
content.

The question is - how do I get to the bound namespaces and attributes?
For example, if I get a tag like: <root attribute="value"/>, how do I  
get to "attribute" and its' "value"?
Or, if I get a tag like <root xmlns:namespace="HTTP://foo"/>, how do I  
retrieve the "xmlns:namespace" part (and its' value)?

Thanks for all the input.

- Kirill

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