On the Xerces features page it says: SAX Features
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes True: Report the original prefixed names and attributes used for Namespace declarations. False: Do not report attributes used for Namespace declarations, and optionally do not report original prefixed names. Default: true Access: (parsing) read-only; (not parsing) read/write I'm thinking this should be default=false? Cheers, Jim.