--- saxutils.head.py	2009-12-01 14:27:59.000000000 -0600
+++ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/saxutils.py	2009-12-01 14:23:25.000000000 -0600
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@
     def _qname(self, name):
         """Builds a qualified name from a (ns_url, localname) pair"""
         if name[0]:
+            if u'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' == name[0]:
+                return u'xml' + ":" + name[1]
             # The name is in a non-empty namespace
             prefix = self._current_context[name[0]]
             if prefix: