Index: src/org/apache/xalan/transformer/TransformerIdentityImpl.java
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--- src/org/apache/xalan/transformer/TransformerIdentityImpl.java	(revision 916620)
+++ src/org/apache/xalan/transformer/TransformerIdentityImpl.java	(working copy)
@@ -439,14 +439,12 @@
           } catch (SAXException se) {
             throw new TransformerException(se);
           }
-        } else {
-          try {
-            reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",
-                              true);
-          } catch (org.xml.sax.SAXException se) {
-            // We don't care.
-          }
         }
+        try {
+          reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", true);
+        } catch (org.xml.sax.SAXException se) {
+          // We don't care.
+        }
 
         // Get the input content handler, which will handle the 
         // parse events and create the source tree.