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-rw-r--r--lib/rexml/element.rb1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rexml/element.rb b/lib/rexml/element.rb
index f757cfffa8..da3fb57872 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/element.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/element.rb
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ module REXML
def attribute( name, namespace=nil )
prefix = nil
prefix = namespaces.index(namespace) if namespace
+ prefix = nil if prefix == 'xmlns'
attributes.get_attribute( "#{prefix ? prefix + ':' : ''}#{name}" )
end