diff --git a/Bent/structure stylesheet/expample_doc.xml b/Bent/structure stylesheet/expample_doc.xml
index 69f4f88..4e87275 100644
--- a/Bent/structure stylesheet/expample_doc.xml	
+++ b/Bent/structure stylesheet/expample_doc.xml	
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xxx.xsl"?>
-<html xmlns:ding="ding">	
+<html xmlns:ding="ding" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">	
 	<head>
 		<title>bent</title>
 		<link rel="stylesheet" type="xml/sss" href="structure_stylesheet_example_alt2.xml"/>
 	</head>
 	<body>
-		<ding:blah></ding:blah>
+		<ding:blah/>
 		<p id="xxxxxxxxx">string 0</p>
 		<ul id="ding" class="blah" title="hello">
 			<li>one</li>
@@ -14,9 +14,17 @@
 			<li>three</li>
 			<li>four</li>
 		</ul>		
-		<p><span id="dong" class="blah foo">string 2</span></p>	
-		<p><span id="doh" class="blah">string 3</span></p>
-		<p><span>string 4</span></p>
-		<div><p>string 5</p></div>
+		<p>
+			<span id="dong" class="blah foo">string 2</span>
+		</p>	
+		<p>
+			<span id="doh" class="blah">string 3</span>
+		</p>
+		<p>
+			<span>string 4</span>
+		</p>
+		<div>
+			<p>string 5</p>
+		</div>
 	</body>
 </html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_compile2.xsl b/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_compile2.xsl
index 6d02f34..16150b7 100644
--- a/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_compile2.xsl	
+++ b/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_compile2.xsl	
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 	<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="axsl" result-prefix="xsl"/>
 	<xsl:key name="struc_by_name" match="s:structure_stylesheet/s:struc" use="@name"/>
 	<xsl:variable name="s_namsepace_uri" select="namespace-uri(/*)"/>	
+	<xsl:variable name="default_ns_is_xhtml" select="'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' = /*/namespace::*[not(name())]"/>	
+	
 	<!--
 		Identity transform (what comes in goes out)
 	-->		
@@ -26,8 +28,8 @@
 	</xsl:template>	
 
 	<xsl:template match="s:structure_stylesheet">
-		<axsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
-			<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*"/>
+		<axsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" exclude-result-prefixes="s xhtml">
+			<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*|@*"/>			
 			<axsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
 			<axsl:template match="@*|node()">
 				<axsl:copy>			
@@ -94,7 +96,11 @@
 		</xsl:if>		
 
 		<!--create an xsl template for each match rule-->		
-		<axsl:template match="{$tag}{$id}{$classes}{$attrs}" priority="{$selector_priority}">
+		<xsl:variable name="pre" select="substring-before($tag, ':')"/>			
+		<xsl:variable name="maybe_pre">
+			<xsl:if test="not($pre) and $default_ns_is_xhtml">xhtml:</xsl:if>
+		</xsl:variable>
+		<axsl:template match="{$maybe_pre}{$tag}{$id}{$classes}{$attrs}" priority="{$selector_priority}">
 			<xsl:if test="$mode_id">
 				<xsl:attribute name="mode">
 					<xsl:value-of select="$mode_id"/>
diff --git a/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_ex2.xml b/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_ex2.xml
index a6fbf10..6952993 100644
--- a/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_ex2.xml	
+++ b/Bent/structure stylesheet/sss_ex2.xml	
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<s:structure_stylesheet xmlns:s="structure_stylesheet" xmlns:ding="ding">	
+<s:structure_stylesheet 
+	xmlns:s="structure_stylesheet" xmlns:ding="ding" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"	
+>
 	<!--structures-->
 	<s:struc name="a">			
 		<div class="wrapper">
-			<h1>before list</h1>			
+			<h1>before list</h1>
 			<s:elem>				
 				<s:class name="blah"/>
 				<s:class name="ding"/>
diff --git a/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xml b/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xml
index 6fa04eb..cee5499 100644
--- a/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xml	
+++ b/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xml	
@@ -1,29 +1,28 @@
-<html xmlns:ding="ding">	
-	<head>
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+<html xmlns:ding="ding" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">	
+	<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 		<title>bent</title>
-		<link rel="stylesheet" type="xml/sss" href="structure_stylesheet_example_alt2.xml">
+		<link rel="stylesheet" type="xml/sss" href="structure_stylesheet_example_alt2.xml"></link>
 	</head>
 	<body>
 		<h1><span>(xxx)</span></h1>
 		<p id="xxxxxxxxx">string 0</p>
-		<div xmlns:s="structure_stylesheet" class="wrapper">
-<h1>before list</h1>
-<ol id="ding" class="blah ding hey what" title="THIS IS A TITLE">
-<h2>prepend</h2>
-<div class="innerwrap">
+		<div class="wrapper"><h1>before list</h1><ol id="ding" class="blah ding hey what" title="THIS IS A TITLE"><h2>prepend</h2><div class="innerwrap">
 			<li title="ding" class="hey foo hello"><h1 style="color:lightblue;">one</h1></li>
 			<li title="ding" class="hey foo hello"><h1 style="color:lightblue;">two</h1></li>
 			<li title="ding" class="hey foo hello"><h1 style="color:lightblue;">three</h1></li>
 			<li title="ding" class="hey foo hello"><h1 style="color:lightblue;">four</h1></li>
+		</div><h2>append</h2></ol><h1>after list</h1></div>		
+		<p>
+			<span id="dong" class="blah foo">string 2</span>
+		</p>	
+		<p>
+			<span id="doh" class="blah">string 3</span>
+		</p>
+		<p>
+			<span>string 4</span>
+		</p>
+		<div>
+			<p>string 5</p>
 		</div>
-<h2>append</h2>
-</ol>
-<h1>after list</h1>
-</div>		
-		<p><span id="dong" class="blah foo">string 2</span></p>	
-		<p><span id="doh" class="blah">string 3</span></p>
-		<p><span>string 4</span></p>
-		<div><p>string 5</p></div>
 	</body>
 </html>
diff --git a/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xsl b/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xsl
index 9f03239..8c077f4 100644
--- a/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xsl	
+++ b/Bent/structure stylesheet/xxx.xsl	
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<axsl:stylesheet xmlns:axsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ding="ding" xmlns:s="structure_stylesheet" version="1.0"><axsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/><axsl:template match="@*|node()"><axsl:copy><axsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></axsl:copy></axsl:template><axsl:template match="ul[@id = 'ding'][contains(concat(normalize-space(@class), ' '), 'blah ')]" priority="11011"><div class="wrapper"><h1>before list</h1><axsl:element name="ol"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><axsl:attribute name="title">THIS IS A TITLE</axsl:attribute><axsl:variable name="orig_classes" select="concat(normalize-space(@class), ' ')"/><axsl:variable name="classes"><axsl:value-of select="$orig_classes"/><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'blah '))">blah </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'ding '))">ding </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hey '))">hey </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'what '))">what </axsl:if></axsl:variable><axsl:variable name="trimmed_classes" select="normalize-space($classes)"/><axsl:if test="$trimmed_classes"><axsl:attribute name="class"><axsl:value-of select="$trimmed_classes"/></axsl:attribute></axsl:if><h2>prepend</h2><div class="innerwrap"><axsl:apply-templates select="node()" mode="id4483421"/></div><h2>append</h2></axsl:element><h1>after list</h1></div></axsl:template><axsl:template match="node()" mode="id4483421"><axsl:apply-templates select="."/></axsl:template><axsl:template match="li" priority="1" mode="id4483421"><axsl:element name="{name()}"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><axsl:attribute name="title">ding</axsl:attribute><axsl:variable name="orig_classes" select="concat(normalize-space(@class), ' ')"/><axsl:variable name="classes"><axsl:value-of select="$orig_classes"/><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hey '))">hey </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'foo '))">foo </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hello '))">hello </axsl:if></axsl:variable><axsl:variable name="trimmed_classes" select="normalize-space($classes)"/><axsl:if test="$trimmed_classes"><axsl:attribute name="class"><axsl:value-of select="$trimmed_classes"/></axsl:attribute></axsl:if><h1 style="color:lightblue;"><axsl:apply-templates select="node()"/></h1></axsl:element></axsl:template><axsl:template match="ding:blah" priority="1"><axsl:element name="h1"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><span>(<axsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>xxx)</span></axsl:element></axsl:template><axsl:template match="processing-instruction('xml-stylesheet')"/></axsl:stylesheet>
+<axsl:stylesheet xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:axsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ding="ding" xmlns:s="structure_stylesheet" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="s xhtml"><axsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/><axsl:template match="@*|node()"><axsl:copy><axsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></axsl:copy></axsl:template><axsl:template match="xhtml:ul[@id = 'ding'][contains(concat(normalize-space(@class), ' '), 'blah ')]" priority="11011"><div class="wrapper"><h1>before list</h1><axsl:element name="ol"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><axsl:attribute name="title">THIS IS A TITLE</axsl:attribute><axsl:variable name="orig_classes" select="concat(normalize-space(@class), ' ')"/><axsl:variable name="classes"><axsl:value-of select="$orig_classes"/><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'blah '))">blah </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'ding '))">ding </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hey '))">hey </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'what '))">what </axsl:if></axsl:variable><axsl:variable name="trimmed_classes" select="normalize-space($classes)"/><axsl:if test="$trimmed_classes"><axsl:attribute name="class"><axsl:value-of select="$trimmed_classes"/></axsl:attribute></axsl:if><h2>prepend</h2><div class="innerwrap"><axsl:apply-templates select="node()" mode="id4483438"/></div><h2>append</h2></axsl:element><h1>after list</h1></div></axsl:template><axsl:template match="node()" mode="id4483438"><axsl:apply-templates select="."/></axsl:template><axsl:template match="xhtml:li" priority="1" mode="id4483438"><axsl:element name="{name()}"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><axsl:attribute name="title">ding</axsl:attribute><axsl:variable name="orig_classes" select="concat(normalize-space(@class), ' ')"/><axsl:variable name="classes"><axsl:value-of select="$orig_classes"/><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hey '))">hey </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'foo '))">foo </axsl:if><axsl:if test="not(contains($orig_classes, 'hello '))">hello </axsl:if></axsl:variable><axsl:variable name="trimmed_classes" select="normalize-space($classes)"/><axsl:if test="$trimmed_classes"><axsl:attribute name="class"><axsl:value-of select="$trimmed_classes"/></axsl:attribute></axsl:if><h1 style="color:lightblue;"><axsl:apply-templates select="node()"/></h1></axsl:element></axsl:template><axsl:template match="ding:blah" priority="1"><axsl:element name="h1"><axsl:apply-templates select="@*"/><span>(<axsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>xxx)</span></axsl:element></axsl:template><axsl:template match="processing-instruction('xml-stylesheet')"/></axsl:stylesheet>
